State v. Fennell

Bussey, Justice:

On May 13, 1973 the respondent, Fannie Dubose Fennell, was charged by the State Highway Patrol with driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. She was served with a copy of a uniform traffic ticket requiring her to appear before Magistrate R. E. Wingard of Ninety Six, Greenwood County, South Carolina. She was tried before the magistrate and a jury on July 10, 1973, but the jury being unable to agree, a mistrial was ordered. The magistrate, thereafter, on the same day accepted from the respondent a plea of guilty of reckless driving, in lieu of…