State v. Bunn

SHARP, Justice.

Defendant’s defense to the charges of murder and felonious assault of which he was convicted is that at the time he shot both Mrs. Smith and Tommie Stevens he was so drunk he was utterly incapable of forming a deliberate and premeditated purpose to kill or to form any criminal intent whatever; and that he did not know the nature and quality of his acts and the difference between right and wrong in relation to them.

It is settled law “that voluntary drunkenness is not a legal excuse for crime.” State v. Propst, 274 N.C. 62, 71, 161 S.E. 2d 560, 567 (1968). See State v. Potts, 100…