LAWRENCE v. STATE

60931.

157 Ga. App. 264 (1981)

277 S.E.2d 60

LAWRENCE v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided January 29, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Sanders, for appellant.

W. A. Foster III, District Attorney, Jeff Richards, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.


DEEN, Presiding Judge.

1. Circumstantial evidence may be sufficient to authorize a finding that a defendant accused of driving a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicants was guilty of the offense although no witness testified positively to having seen him operating the vehicle. Where a police officer comes upon the defendant standing beside his wrecked automobile which has skidded off the road and into a ditch, who admits he was the driver of the vehicle,...

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