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BURGER v. STATE

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118 Ga. App. 328 (1968)

163 S.E.2d 333

BURGER v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided September 5, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert M. Horn, for appellant.

William E. Spence, Solicitor, Henson McAuliffe, James L. Webb, Frank A. Bowers, Lewis R. Slaton, Solicitor General, J. Walter LeCraw, for appellee.

EBERHARDT, Judge.

Admittedly there is a great surge of opinion among religious and social workers, and among some doctors, that alcoholism is a disease and that one who, being a chronic alcoholic, becomes drunk, should not be punished but should be treated for his condition. But, as was pointed out in Powell v. Texas, 392 U.S. 514, 522 (88 SC ,20 LE2d 1254), "there is no agreement among members of the medical profession about what it...

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