People v. Hook

Defendant-appellant was convicted of

public intoxication in Justice’s Court in the town of Marcy, and his conviction was affirmed on appeal to the County Court of Oneida County. The opinion of the County Judge indicates that the only questions to be determined are whether the defendant was intoxicated at the time of his arrest, and whether at the time of his arrest he was intoxicated in a public place.

He was wakened by two State Troopers at 9:00 p.m., at the insistence of his wife, while he was asleep in his truck which was parked in a private driveway leading to the house of a man named…