HOPSON v. STATE


299 S.W.2d 11 (1957)

Rosie Lee HOPSON v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied March 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Guidi, Memphis, for plaintiff in error.

Thomas E. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

This appeal is from a conviction of driving an automobile upon a public highway or street while under the influence of an intoxicant. Code, § 59-1031. The insistences made are (1) no evidence of corpus delicti, and (2) permitting evidence of an admission upon the part of plaintiff-in-error that she was driving before independent evidence tending to establish the corpus delicti had been introduced, and (3) failure to prove venue as alleged...

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