Anchorage v. Cook

OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

A little after midnight on April 3, 1977, Officer Stiehm of the Anchorage Police Department was dispatched to investigate a possible automobile accident in a parking lot at the corner of 3rd and C in downtown Anchorage. In the parking lot he observed an automobile with its front bumper “hung up” on a guardrail. The car’s engine was not running but its headlights were on. The key was in the ignition switch in the “on” position. John Wesley Cook, appellee, was lying on the front seat of the car with his feet under the steering wheel and his head toward the passenger side.…