PEOPLE v. THORNTON

Docket No. 2,353.

9 Mich. App. 536 (1968)

157 N.W.2d 490

PEOPLE v. THORNTON.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 19, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel J. Torina, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and Thomas P. Smith, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Tauber & Garon, for defendant.


LESINSKI, C.J.

On May 25, 1966, the defendant was tried in the recorder's court for the city of Detroit, traffic and ordinance division, in a nonjury trial on a charge of having operated a motor vehicle on March 26, 1966, while under the influence of intoxicating liquor.1 At trial, testimony of a police officer and the defendant disclosed that the defendant was in an automobile accident on the date charged in the complaint. Shortly after...

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