State v. Friesen

NUGENT, Judge.

Garry E. Friesen appeals the judgment of the trial court convicting him of driving while intoxicated. The defendant claims that an extrajudicial statement he allegedly made to the state trooper implying that he was the driver of the truck was not admis sible absent separate, independent proof of the corpus delicti. Defendant also claims that the conviction is not supported by the weight of the evidence and moreover, that, the evidence offered by the state was incompetent as well as insufficient.

Finding defendant’s first point disposi-tive of the appeal, we reverse the conviction.