Crawley v. State

I respectfully dissent. The majority makes light of the fact that no eye witness ever placed Crawley in the driver's seat of the car. Appellate cases dealing with the sufficiency of the evidence to prove operation of a vehicle usually include fact patterns where a witness has found the defendant in the driver's seat of the vehicle alleged to have been operated. See, e.g., Parks v. State, 752 N.E.2d 63 (Ind.Ct.App.2001); Clark v. State, 611 N.E.2d 181 (Ind.Ct.App.1993), trans. denied; Hiegel v. State, 588 N.E.2d 265 (Ind.Ct.App.1989). Indeed, "where the defendant has been found asleep with the…