Drowne v. Melton

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Rensselaer County) to review a determination of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles which revoked petitioner’s New York State operator’s license. The petitioner was involved in a one-car accident as the operator of the automobile. A trooper testified that when he interviewed the petitioner at some time after the accident, the petitioner appeared intoxicated and he admitted having consumed some "alcoholic beverages” and having "stopped at a barroom” on his way home from…