Wade v. State

BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

Following a bench trial, factually stipulated for trial purposes (to preclude the State’s witnesses from having to appear), while preserving the due process issues for appellate review, Brittany Wade appeals her conviction of DUI less-safe, 1 contending that her bent of mind or intent is not an element of this crime and that the use of similar transaction evidence to show the same is prejudicial and not needed by the State. While acknowledging, for the purpose of the bench trial, that Georgia appellate cases currently authorize such similar transaction evidence, she…