People v. Craft

Chief Judge Fuld.

Shortly after midnight on May 14, 1966, a police officer, while on patrol duty, observed an automobile which had apparently collided with, and come to rest against, a utility pole in Binghamton. To the officer’s question, “ What happened,” the lone occupant of the car, the defendant before us, replied, ‘ ‘ I was going about five miles an hour, and I just couldn’t get around the corner.” He was obviously drunk, his breath being alcohol laden, and his speech “thick [and] slurred.” Upon being arrested and taken to the police station-, the defendant was asked to submit to a blood…