Legal Opinion

State v. Thomas

Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer

Decided May 22, 1935No. Indictment for Rape, No. 80Published

1Opinion of the Court

Layton, C. J.,

charged the jury, in part, as follows:

There is in the testimony some evidence that the prisoner at the time in question was intoxicated to some degree. The testimony relating to the intoxicated condition of the prisoner, in whatever degree, if any, it may have been shown to appear, is not to be considered by you, as in the circumstances of this case it is entirely immaterial. State v. Di Guglielmo, 4 Penn. 336, 55 A. 350; State v. Truitt, 5 Penn. 466, 469, 62 A. 790; State v. Hurley, Houst. Cr. Cas. 28; State v. Davis, 9 Houst. 407, 33 A. 55; State v. Adams,.6 Penn. 178, 65 A.…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. State v. AdamsDelaware Court of Oyer and Terminer · 1906
  2. State v. TruittNew York Court of General Session of the Peace · 1905
  3. West Jersey Traction Co. v. ShiversSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1895
  4. State v. HamburgNew York Court of General Session of the Peace · 1928

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