CRM/LAW C144 Chapter Notes - Chapter POWELL V TEXAS: American Medical Association, Public Intoxication, Syllogism
20 Jun 2017
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Underlying facts, the actual crime that took place. In late december 1966, appellant was arrested and charged with being found in a state of intoxication in a public place, in violation of texas penal code, art. The trial judge, sitting without a jury, ruled as a matter of law that chronic alcoholism was not a defense to the charge. The principal testimony was that of dr. davis wade, a fellow of the american medical. On cross-examination, appellant admitted that he had had one drink on the morning of the trial and had been able to discontinue drinking. We know very little about the circumstances surrounding the drinking bout which resulted in this conviction, or about leroy powell"s drinking problem, or indeed about alcoholism itself . The inescapable fact is that there is no agreement among members of the medical profession about what it means to say that alcoholism is a.
