Steele v. State Road Commission

Hatcher, Judge:

The petitioner herein was acquitted before a justice upon a charge of operating an automobile on the public road while intoxicated, in violation of Code, 17-8-25. He was arraigned later before the State Road Commission under Code, 17-6-28, upon the charge “that he operated a motor vehicle in a manner endangering the lives and property of those using the public highways.” In bar of that arraignment he introduced evidence of his acquittal before the justice. The Commission ignored the acquittal, heard the evidence which was practically the same as the evidence before the justice,…