Ryan v. State

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

Appellant, Paul T. Ryan, Jr., was tried by the court without a jury and convicted of first offense driving while intoxicated. On appeal, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence.

At trial, Baxter County Deputy Sheriff Michael Redmond testified that at approximately 1:30 a.m. on March 27, 1988, he was called to the scene of a one-vehicle accident on State Highway 101. When he arrived, he was informed that the driver had been taken to the hospital in a private vehicle. At the scene, he found a 1977 Chevrolet pickup truck in a ditch twenty-one feet from the pavement.…