“A person, though he knows a person is drunk, cannot sometimes explain exactly [why].”
How to prove drunkenness in a pre-breathalyser era?
The below case from Dungarvan Petty Sessions, reported in the Waterford Evening News of 7 January 1914, which shows a court struggling with this question, illustrates the humour and vibrancy of Irish court proceedings of the time,
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