People v. Blake

Citations

• 65 Cal. 275
• 4 P. 1
• 1884 Cal. LEXIS 518

Syllabus

<p>CRIMINAL Law—Forgery—Drunkenness as a Defense.—In a prosecution for forgery, evidence is admissible, on the question of intent, to show that in consequence of protracted intemperance defendant’s mental faculties had been impaired to such an extent as to deprive him of the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong, and that he did not know what he was doing at the time of the commission of the act.</p>