People v. Douglas

Defendant Jack Douglas appeals from a judgment of conviction entered in a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Randolph County for driving while intoxicated in violation of Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, Chap. 95½, par. 144, for which he was sentenced to one year at the state farm in Vandalia.

Jack Bievens testified that he was a state trooper on patrol in Sparta, Illinois on August 17, 1969. He noticed defendant’s truck parked in front of Mitchell’s Tavern. Later, a Gary Brand told Bievens that “a guy in an old pickup Ford truck had thrown beer bottles out and almost hit his car out by the Catholic…