He is a drunkard whose habit it is to get drunk; whose ebriety has become habitual. The terms “drunkard” and “habitual drunkard” mean the same thing. Com. v. Whitney, 5 Gray (Mass.) 85; Gourlay y. Gourlay, 16 R. I. 705, 10 Atl. 142.
A “common” drunkard is defined by statute In some states as a person who has been convicted of drunkenness (or proved to have been drunk) a certain number of times within a limited period. State v. Kelly, 12 R. I. 535; State v. Flynn, 16 R. I. 10. 11 Atl. 170. Elsewhere the word “common” in this connection is understood as being equivalent to “habitual/’ (State v. Savage, 80 Ala. 1, 7 South. 183, 7 L. R. A. 426; Com. v. McNamee, 112 Mass. 286; State v. Ryan. 70 Wis. 676, 36 N. W. 823;) or perhaps as synonymous with “public,” (Com. v. Whitney, 5 Gray [Mass.] 86.)