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p. 536State v. George Thomas. (May 22, 1935.) •Layton, C. J., Harrington and Rodney, J. J., sitting. Court of Oyer and Terminer for the New Castle County, Indictment for Rape, No. 80, May Term, 1935.
P. Warren Green, Attorney-General, and Robert PL. Richards, Jr., Deputy Attorney-General, for the State.
Louis L. Redding for the defendant.
charged the jury, in part, as follows:
There 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 .
Cases cited
- State v. Davis 9 Houst. 407 p. 536
- State v. Hamburg 34 Del.) 62 p. 536