Court Opinion

ID: 9697842
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:33:39.159679+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:35.883154
License: Public Domain

BECKER, Justice
(concurring in result).
I concur in the result. I do not concur in the statement that “intoxication is an affirmative defense with the burden resting on defendant to establish it by a preponderance of the evidence.” This type of statement gives rise to the same troublesome question finally resolved in alibi cases by State v. Galloway, (decided April 8, 1969) Iowa, 167 N.W.2d 89; Cf. State v. Carter, Iowa, 161 N.W.2d 722, 725-727. It would seem the statement is unnecessary to this opinion.