Show just one little drink I 1 IT T was nip vun van winkle as ar pinked by joseph jefferson who gave us the idea that just one little drink did not riot mean incan n thing it t ivas ins livi favorite rite expression when ho lie broke his pledge of tempt temperance fance as he lie always did thi van ilont count we arc are having difficulty in determine which one ime doe count legally for par oue one court in baltimore fines a man who has bai had but one drink foi driving while intoxicated other courts require more than one drink as a proof df intoxication courts jinbo i mytr defined denned legal intoxication legally aad d r docs doe not pot lacni to be the same it ie is the custom of tc tte courts and particularly jurics ju riesto to consider Ur drunk unk and 11 ta be completely synonymous bynon and when a man is 18 drunk it a matter of quite varied opinion A tennessee expert wit aitos denied that 4 man was jas intoxicated who had been proved to have taken twelve drink within a short time he ire said ilia ho lie did not co nolder a man inan drunk until he fell down and gral grab bd boil a root to keep from sliding off the earth all the vay from that condition to the slight exhilaration cornes from nn bebing but a single glasa of bicer with a kick in it constitutes a tivi twilight light zono zone in the courts arc groping for a definition 4 i pathologically anything iq which 14 poisonous in anny tiny degree for alcohol congress has sit this at a 4 nilai minimum murn of one half of one per cent and the supreme court lias has given this definition its approval so althon althou pathologically and even legally legall a man ie is lo 10 intoxicated when he lie taku bt bf t a single gladi of beer of more than A 0 y he is not ne necessarily verily drunk in tho the common understanding of that word and cinci we popularly confuse that with intoxicated ofir courts and juries keep on groping in the tivi twilight light zone perhaps a change in the wording of our statutes may inny 4 bo be necessary to illuminate the zone 1 i |