2016 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
CHAPTER 4. DEFENSES TO CRIMINAL LIABILITY
§ 423. Involuntary intoxication as a defense.

11 DE Code § 423 (2016) What's This?

In any prosecution for an offense it is a defense that, as a result of intoxication which is not voluntary, the actor at the time of the conduct lacked substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of the conduct or to perform a material element of the offense, or lacked sufficient willpower to choose whether the person would do the act or refrain from doing it.

11 Del. C. 1953, § 423; 58 Del. Laws, c. 497, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §1.;

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