Legal Opinion
People v. Atkins
California Supreme Court
Decided March 12, 2001No. S082662PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CHIN, J.
Is evidence of voluntary intoxication admissible, under Penal Code section 22, on the issue of whether defendant formed the required mental state for arson (Pen. Code, § 451)?1 We conclude that such evidence is not admissible because arson is a general intent crime. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeal.
Facts and Procedural History
On September 26, 1997, defendant told his friends that he hated Orville Figgs and was going to bum down Figgs’s house.
On the afternoon of September 27, defendant and his brother David drove by Figgs’s home on the Ponderosa Sky…
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