Case Name: State v. George Thomas
Court: Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1935-05-22
Citations: 36 Del. 536
Docket Number: Indictment for Rape, No. 80
Parties: State v. George Thomas.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 36
Pages: 536–536

Head Matter:
State v. George Thomas.
(May 22, 1935.)
•Layton, C. J., Harrington and Rodney, J. J., sitting.
P. Warren Green, Attorney-General, and Robert PL. Richards, Jr., Deputy Attorney-General, for the State.
Louis L. Redding for the defendant.
Court of Oyer and Terminer for the New Castle County,
Indictment for Rape, No. 80,
May Term, 1935.

Opinion:
Layton, C. J.,
charged the jury, in part, as follows:
There is in the testimony some evidence that the prisoner at the time in question was intoxicated to some degree. The testimony relating to the intoxicated condition of the prisoner, in whatever degree, if any, it may have been shown to appear, is not to be considered by you, as in the circumstances of this case it is entirely immaterial. State v. Di Guglielmo, 4 Penn. 336, 55 A. 350; State v. Truitt, 5 Penn. 466, 469, 62 A. 790; State v. Hurley, Houst. Cr. Cas. 28; State v. Davis, 9 Houst. 407, 33 A. 55; State v. Adams,.6 Penn. 178, 65 A. 510; 1 Russ, on Crimes (9th Ed.) 12. See, also, State v. Hamburg, 4 W. W. Harr. (34 Del.) 62, 143 A. 47.