People v. Hill

Citations

• 123 Cal. 47
• 55 P. 692
• 1898 Cal. LEXIS 982

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law—Homicide—Degree of Morder—Intoxication—Instruction.—Upon the trial of a defendant charged with murder in the first degree, where there is any evidence tending to show that the defendant was intoxicated at the time of the homicide, he is entitled to have an instruction given embracing in substance the statutory declaration as to the bearing of intoxication upon the degree of the crime, and a refusal to give such instruction entitles the defendant to a reversal of a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree.</p>