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36 Del. 536

State v. Thomas

Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer · decided 1935-05-22

Relies on State v. Adams · State v. Truitt · State v. Hamburg

Decided 1935-05-22

Layton, C. J.,

¶1charged the jury, in part, as follows:

¶2There 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. 510; 1 Russ, on Crimes (9th Ed.) 12. See, also, State v. Hamburg, 4 W. W. Harr. (34 Del.) 62, 143 A. 47.

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