State v. Morgan

OPINION

DUNCAN, Judge.

The defendant, Vaughn Morgan, appeals from a judgment of the Grainger County Circuit Court finding him guilty of driving an automobile while under the influence of an intoxicant. T.C.A. § 59-1031.

The charging instrument in this case was a state warrant, and the defendant was initially convicted of this offense in the Grainger County Sessions Court. He appealed his conviction to the circuit court where, after a trial de novo on the same warrant by the circuit judge, without the intervention of a jury, he was again convicted.

It was the State’s theory that the defendant was…