Chittum v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• approving a jury instruction that stated, \A person cannot voluntarily make himself so drunk as to become on that account irresponsible for his conduct during such drunkenness. He may be perfectly unconscious of what he does and yet be responsible.\
• victim ordered to lie down and defendant stated that he would “be gentle”
• voluntary intoxication excuses no crime but may reduce murder from first to second degree
• kidnapping and attempted rape; court made rule
• kidnapping and attempted rape; court made rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).