Dipsomania
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In medical jurisprudence. A disease produced by drunkenness, and, indeed, other causes, which overmasters the will of its victim, and irresistibly impels him to drink to intoxication.
1 Bish. Crim. Law, § 304.
How far the law vrill hold a party responsible for acts committed while the mind is overwhelmed by the effects of liquor so taken is an open question.