REX
V.
HANSEN OWAREY

KINGDON, C.J., NIGERIA, BUTLER LLOYD AND CAREY, JJ. The only question raised on this appeal is whether the Court came to a right decision with regard to the law as to intoxication as a defence in this country.

It is sufficient to say that in our opinion the learned Trial Judge, set out the law on that point both fully and correctly. The appeal is dismissed. The facts of this case are to be found in the following judgment of the learned Trial Judge:- The accused a native of the Gold Coast, is charged with the murder of a fellow clerk who like himself was employed at a mining camp in the Sokoto Province on October 30th last by shooting him with a shot gun. The evidence shows that the accused and the deceased were called to the Manager’s office on a Sunday afternoon to draft and type a reply to a letter from a neighbouring manager, to which an inadequate reply had already been dispatched in the absence of the Manager in the morning: an altercation then arose and the accused struck the dec…