State v. Thompson

WALKER, Judge.

Defendant was charged with and found guilty of driving while impaired (DWI) in Union County District Court on 13 March 2001. He appealed to Union County Superior Court, where he was convicted by a jury. He received a sixty-day suspended sentence along with twelve months of supervised probation and was assessed $417.00 in fines and costs.

At trial, the State’s evidence tended to show the following: In the early morning hours of 24 February 2001, Officers James Hyatt and Mike Buesing of the Wingate Police Department were driving west on Highway 74 during their routine patrol. They…