cross-examination, witness. raid he did not have any drinks at his office and through being arrested he did not have any lunch. He was quite sure that he ably had two whiskey sodas. He had tea and toast for breakfast that morning. He did not have anything to drink after he left the wireless station. Accused! could not account for the two subparnaed witnesses and the police saying that his car zig-cagged. Tu. reply to the Magistrate, accused said that he had some sandwiches in the Exchange Bar.
Mr, S. M. Butter, of the Shanghai Gas Ca., said that he accompanied accused in his car. He drove quite fall right. They went down Kiukiunge Road which was very narrow and there was a lot of traffic about.
was a most difficult drive alone this congested street. Witness insisted that accused was quite all right. "I would not have got his ear," concluded witness, unless he had been perfectly all 3." Chow, clerk in accused' office, said that necused gave him several orders and assigned two pilots to ships on the afternoon an Mr. Preston then briefly adresse! the Court. He sai call three decided that "this would not be necessary. Counsel went on that the question to decide 'When is a man drunk?" Earl Russell, in an address. before the British" Medical Association conference held recently in London, said during a discussion "Alcohol and the Motorist": framing the Act the use of the word drunk' was unfortunate. Mad the term onder the influence alcohol" been used many. difficulties would have been avoided."
The Shanghai Custom It is 'n custom to meet daring the tiffin hour, di cuss business matters and have a }few drinks. I say that the majority Jot owner-drivers who drive {Bubbling Well Road and on. other roads aluring the tifin hours are order the influence of drink—but. jin the best sense. They are not drunk but to a certain extent are under the influence of liquor.
The accused was charged with being drunk. There was no suggestion that any accident had occurred, the riz-zagging "that witnesses spoke about might have been caused through a coolie darting across the road or a riesha dashing about. the way we know so well. might have-been doing it for fon "Some people drive well ani don't," went on counsel. "The "accused is a pilot, "he may not drive a cor as well 3s people who, are continually driving in Shanghai but -he had no accident. Accused certainly chose the worst possible time to stall his car. No doubt the car drivers were very angry at the delay. But, the police constable invited the accused to drive him to the police station. A man must be out of his mind sk a man who is supposed to be "drank to drive him through. crowded thoroughfares. If the: policeman were not out of his mind, the inference is that he did not think accused was drunk. The) doctor said that there was a faint smell of alcohol' about the accused bot that is not one of those breaths which come across; the desk and hit you, as the police would have you believe. I have searched through many legal dictionaries but} in only one, the Cyclopedia Law Dictionary, an American publication, can I find a definition of Drun!
The definition given is:—'A man drank when he is overcome, stubs or frenzied by alcoholic liquors."
Webster's Dictionary says:—"Drunk. adjective. 1." Overcome by drinking——introxieated—inebriated—the same as drunken, Dronched or saturated with moisture or liquor.—Intoxicate: to make drunk and inebriated. Inobriate: to disorder the senses to stupefy or to make furious or fra "The Century Dictionary says:—'1. Intoxieated—inebriated—overcome—stupefied or frenzied by aleobolie
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