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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 512
Voluntary Intoxication - Not a Defense
A person is voluntarily intoxicated if [he/she] becomes intoxicated by voluntarily using
any intoxicating drug, drink, or other substance knowing that it could cause an intoxicating effect
or voluntarily assuming the risk that it could cause intoxication.
If you find that when the defendant is not intoxicated, [he/she] is capable of knowing
right from wrong, and that the defendant voluntarily became intoxicated so that [he/she] did not
know or understand the act of ______________________ [specify crime charged], then the
defendant is responsible for the crime of _________________________ [specify crime charged],
and [his/her] voluntary intoxication is not a defense to the crime.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 512 (current as of June 30, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
3857d62f9f8985b37310fddc460285209bb70d43fd059ff03a8b31406effcb71
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