He is held answerable both for being
under the influence of alcohol or of any other drug, and for the acts
such influence induces.
=Inebriates Act= (1898-1900).--If an habitual drunkard be sentenced to
imprisonment or penal servitude for an offence committed during
drunkenness, or if he has been convicted four times in one year, the
court may order him to be detained for a term not exceeding three years
in an inebriate reformatory.
PART II
TOXICOLOGY
I.--DEFINITION OF A POISON
Though the law does not define in definite terms what a poison really
is, it lays stress on the _malicious intention_ in giving a drug or
other substance to an individual. It is a _felony_ to administer, or
cause to be administered, any poison or other destructive thing with
intent to murder, or with the intention of stupefying or overpowering an
individual so that any indictable offence may be committed. It is a
_misdemeanour_ to administer any poison, or destructive or noxious
thing, merely to aggrieve, injure, or annoy an individual. For a working
_definition_ we may state that a poison is a substance which, when
introduced into or applied to the body, is capable of injuring health or
destroying life.
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