Hitchcock v. State

Where, on the trial of one charged with operating an automobile on a public highway of this State under the influence of intoxicants, it appears from the evidence that the defendant admitted operating the automobile at the time and place in question, and the defendant remained silent when, some 45 minutes after the wrecking of the car and he had been taken to a hospital, an intern and nurse stated to a State trooper in the defendant’s presence, so that he could hear the statement, that he was uninjured and was only drunk, and the trooper stated that since he smelled a strong alcoholic odor on…