State v. Laws

DOWD, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of driving a motor vehicle while in an intoxicated condition and fined $500.00. This appeal followed. We affirm.

Prom the evidence the jury reasonably could have found that on December 24, 1973, about 4:30 p. m., as Trooper Larry Joseph Goetz of the State Highway Patrol was traveling north on Highway 79, he observed a pickup truck being driven southbound by appellant on the wrong side of the road. Trooper Goetz was forced to drive his patrol car off the highway onto the shoulder to avoid the truck. He turned and pursued the truck, keeping it under…