Thrasher v. State

The defendant, Ira Belton Thrasher, has appealed from a conviction sustained in the superior court of Seminole county on a charge of driving an automobile upon the public highway while under the influence of intoxicating liquor.

The evidence disclosed that about dark on June 5, 1948, the defendant drove a Hudson automobile on Highway 99 about three and one-half miles north of Seminole at a high rate of speed. He almost struck Mrs. Douglas and Mrs. Mallon, who testified that he approached them as they were walking up the highway from one of their homes to the other, and only escaped being…