"Men intoxicated are sometimes stunned into sobriety."
— Drunkenness

January 1, 1970

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Lord Mansfield, Rex v. Wilkes (1769), 4 Burr. Part IV. 2563; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 106, which notes: "This dictum of Lord Mansfield probably means that if a person is intoxicated by drink or by success or by anything which practically takes away sober reasoning, that anything which startles him will bring it back again. We see the same in ordinary life : any sudden surprise or shock will put a person in full possession of his senses