Herring v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, af firming the suspension of appellant Alvin Herring’s driver’s license for his refusal to submit to a breathalyzer test.

On February 23, 1978, Alvin Herring drove his car into other cars parked on a street in Uniontown, Fayette County. When police Officer Earl Wright approached the scene, he detected the smell of alcohol on Herring’s breath and observed that Herring spoke in a slurred manner. Officer Wright testified that he arrested the appellant at that time for…