Bush v. State

BOOKOUT, Judge.

Driving while intoxicated; sentence: five hundred dollar fine.

On May 5, 1974, the appellant’s pickup truck left Ware’s Ferry Road, struck an embankment, and overturned. The appellant suffered various painful injuries. He testified that he had a bottle of bourbon with him and that he drank some of the bourbon after the wreck to relieve the pain.

A State’s witness, John Wesley McCloud, testified that he saw the wreck, that he was approximately one hundred feet from the wreck when it occurred and that he assisted the appellant out of the pickup truck. He stated that he observed the…