State v. Sutherlin

PRENTICE, Justice.

Defendant (Appellee) was charged with Driving While Intoxicated, Ind.Code § 9-4-l-54(b) (Burns 1980), by a traffic citation form which substantially complies with the requirements of Ind.Code § 9-4-7-4 (Burns 1980). That statute was enacted in response to our decision in Watt v. State, (1968) 249 Ind. 674, 234 N.E.2d 471, wherein we noted several deficiencies in the old traffic ticket forms.

Defendant moved to dismiss the information upon the following grounds:

“1. That the information was filed in the form of a uniform traffic citation ticket and is defective under I.C.…