State v. Corriher

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

The State appeals the trial court’s order granting Ralph Sloan Corriher’s motion to suppress the results of his breath test. The trial court determined that the officer who administered the Intoxilyzer test to Corriher lacked a valid permit, thereby invalidating the test pursuant to OCGA § 52-7-12 (c) (1). For the reasons set forth below, we reverse the trial court.

On appeal from a trial court’s grant of a motion to suppress, the trial court’s findings of fact are accepted unless they are clearly erroneous; “however, where the evidence is uncontroverted and no…