Strickland v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Conyers. Jeff Davis superior court. July 22, 1911.
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
Strickland was convicted of murder, ana sentenced to imprisonment for life. He moved for a new trial. The motion was overruled, and he excepted’.
1. Voluntary drunkenness furnishes no excuse for crime. Penal Code (1910), § 39. The mere dulling of the sensibilities, excitement or temporary frenzy of the drunken man, brought about by his voluntary act, will not excuse him. But if mania or insanity, “though produced by drunkenness, be permanent and fixed, so as to destroy all knowledge of right and wrong, then the person thus laboring under these infirmities would not be responsible.” Beck v.…
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