(Exchequer Chamber ) ‘[I]f a person that is drunk kills another, this shall be felony, and he shall be hanged for it, and yet he did it through ignorance, for when he was drunk he had no understanding nor memory, but inasmuch as that ignorance was occasioned by his own act and folly, and he might have avoided it, he shall not be privileged thereby.’
Citations:
75 ER 1 (ex), (1551) 1 Plowden 1
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Crime
Updated: 30 April 2022; Ref: scu.219446