State v. Griggs

PARKER, Judge.

There was ample evidence to warrant submitting the case to the jury. Not only was there strong circumstantial evidence that defendant drove his car upon the highway at a time when he was under the influence of intoxicating liquor, see State v. Haddock, 254 N.C. 162, 118 S.E. 2d 411 (1961), but there was here evidence that when arrested defendant admitted to the patrolman that he had driven his car to the location where it was found parked partly on the paved portion of the highway and that after stopping the car he did not have anything to drink. In his testimony at trial…