Kyle v. State

This appeal is from a conviction of driving an automobile while under the influence of an intoxicant. Code *172Section 59-1031, T.C.A. The sentence was twenty days imprisonment and a fine of $350. From this conviction a seasonable appeal has been perfected wherein the primary insistence is that there is no evidence of the corpus delicti. There are other insistences which will be commented on in the course of the opinion, but the gravamen of the defense is that there is no evidence of the corpus delicti.

On January 31, 1959, police officers of Memphis were summoned to investigate an accident at the…