Rodgers v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
Charles Edward Rodgers has been convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants, Code § 18-75, and sentenced to pay a fine. He assigns error to the admission in evidence of the results of an analysis of blood alleged to be his, and to the giving of an instruction to the jury.
On the night of December 2, 1953, a car driven by Rodgers was involved in a collision with another car on U. S. Highway 11 a short distance east of Dublin, in Pulaski county. A Dublin police officer went to the scene and found the defendant “wobbly and staggering” and with a strong odor of…
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