Beasley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1975
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jarrell v. State · Walker v. State · 51 Ala. App. 540 - Dolvin v. State · 30 Ala. App. 135 - Patterson v. State
Most-quoted passages
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““No.” Much has been said on the subject of voluntary drunkenness as a defense in criminal cases, but there has been no departure from the rule announced in Walker v. State, 91 Ala. 76 , 9 So. 87 (1890) and recently quoted in Beasley v. State, 53 Ala.App. 488, 491 , 301 So.2d 252 , as follows: “Mere drunkenness, voluntarily produced, is never a defense against a criminal charge, and can never palliate or reduce the grade of an offense, unless it is so extreme as to render impossible some specific mental condition which is an essential element of the criminal act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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