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· 11/23/1892

Higgins v. Drennan

Citations

  • 157 Mass. 384
  • 32 N.E. 354
  • 1892 Mass. LEXIS 79

How courts have described this case

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  • upholding a conviction for terroristic threatening where the defendant chased the victims in a car for over three miles and tried to run them into a ditch
  • defendant must show that he was incapacitated by the effects of alcohol, not merely that he drank alcohol, to obtain an instruction on voluntary intoxication

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Judges: Holmes

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