Dowdy v. State

CATES, Judge.

February 21, 1956, Bert Robertson, a Highway Patrolman, made complaint before the clerk of the court below that Dowdy drove a motor vehicle upon a highway while intoxicated, Code 1940, Title 36, § 2, as amended.

A petit jury in the Law and Equity Court of Lauderdale County tried him on May 15, 1956, and found him guilty and assessed a fine of $110. Thence here on appeal from the trial court’s judgment which followed the verdict, coupled with an added punishment of five days in the county jail.

The State’s case was that about 5:15 P.M. on February 20, 1956, Dowdy was arrested by…