State v. Jacques

This is an appeal from a conviction of driving while intoxicated. The respondent was also charged with careless and negligent driving, but the State entered a nolle prosequi to this charge during trial. The respondent advances a number of claims of error which he asserts are sufficiently prejudicial to require reversal. Trial was by jury.

The matter began when two witnesses operating a pick-up truck in Barre were confronted by another truck coming at them in their traffic lane at a high rate of speed. A collision was narrowly averted and the witnesses continued on their errand. Returning along…