Peters v. Oklahoma Department of Public Safety

LAVENDER, Justice:

This appeal involves the revocation of the driver’s license of Noma Peters (Peters), appellee, pursuant to the state’s “Implied Consent Law,” 47 O.S.1971, § 751, et seq.

Peters was driving an automobile in Lawton, Oklahoma, on December 1, 1974, at about 2:30 A.M. The police stopped her vehicle. She was arrested, transported to police headquarters, and booked. There were three other persons in the vehicle as passengers. Here the problem involves an issue of fact as to whether Peters refused to submit to test for determining alcoholic content of blood.

The Commissioner of Public…