Wallace v. State

Defendant was indicted for the offenses of murder, aggravated assault, theft of a motor vehicle and driving under the influence of alcohol.1 The evidence at trial on June 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1987, was as follows:

Sometime around midnight on May 16,1979, Officers Tom Rowry and Mike Cook of the Union Point, Georgia Police Department began following defendant in their patrol car after they observed defendant making an unusual “wide turn” near “downtown Union Point.” After the officers observed defendant’s car “run off the road several times and [cross] over into the opposite lane several times,” they…