Appellant has petitioned this Court to grant transfer from a decision of the Court of Appeals affirming his conviction of the offensе of armed robbery.
The opinion of the Court of Appeals contains the erroneous statement that “robbery is not a ‘speсific intent’ crime.”
This Court has recently stated that all of the common law
malum in se
crimes have always included the
mens rea
as an element.
Gregory
v.
State
(1973),
The question in the case at bar arose because of the giving of thе State’s Tendered Instruction No. 3 which reads as follows:
“Voluntary use of drugs will not excuse crimе. If the defendant was using drugs it was his own fault and he can not claim any immunity by reason of such use. It was his duty tо keep from using drugs, and if he voluntarily permitted himself to become intoxicated from drugs, and whilе so intoxicated commited the crime сharged, he is guilty and should be punished precisеly the same as though he had been sober. It is nоt the law that a man may voluntarily become intoxicated and commit crime and esсape punishment by reason of such intoxiсation. One cannot use his own voluntary intoxiсation to escape the consequences of his acts while so intoxicated.”
The above instruction was taken from the case of
Madden
v.
State
(1970),
The correct statement of the law in Indiana concerning voluntary intoxication аs a defense was set out in
Emler
v.
State
(1972),
*583 “Normally voluntary intoxication is not a defense in a criminal proceeding. In order for intoxication to relieve appellant from responsibility the crime charged must have involved spеcific intent and he must have been so intoxiсated as to be incapable of еntertaining the required specific intent.”
The Madden case is, therefore, specifically ovеrruled for the reason that the above quоted instruction therein approved is errоneous in that it fails to state that intoxication may be a defense, if the defendant was sо intoxicated as to be unable to form the specific intent necessary for the commission of a crime.
In the case at bаr the objection of the appellant to the giving of State’s Instruction No. 3 was not ideаl, but it was sufficient to call the court’s attention to the fact that the instruction was not cоrrect notwithstanding the erroneous statemеnt in Madden, swpra.
Transfer is, therefore, granted. The trial cоurt is reversed and is directed to grant the appellant’s motion for a new trial.
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