State v. Peters

HOLSTEIN, Judge.

This is an appeal by the State of the trial court’s order suppressing evidence of a blood test in a case in which the defendant is charged with the misdemeanors of driving while intoxicated and driving on the wrong side of the road. The action of the trial court in suppressing the evidence of the blood test is affirmed.

The motion to suppress pointed out that inasmuch as §§ 577.020 and 577.026 RSMo 1986 require that chemical analysis of a person’s blood be performed according to satisfactory techniques, devices, equipment, or methods approved by the department of health and the…