49 A.D.2d 981 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1975
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Madison County, rendered March 3, 1975, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of operating a motor vehicle while having .10 of one per centum or more, by weight, of alcohol in his blood, a felony, in violation of subdivision 2 of section 1192 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law. The record shows that a police officer, sent to the scene in response to a telephone call, was informed by a person he met there that his car had been forced off the road by defendant’s vehicle and that his wife had called the police. The officer found defendant’s vehicle 25 to 30 feet off the public highway and noted skid marks leading across both sides of the road and into a field and ending at the defendant’s automobile. The officer observed that the defendant was staggering; that his face was flushed and his eyes were watery. He