Case ID: so2d_308/html/0512-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joe L. BRUCE v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
    No. 6623.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
    Feb. 13, 1975.
    Law Offices of Steven R. Plotkm, John P. Cosentino, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.
    Foye L. Lowe, Jr., Baton Rouge, Associate Gen. Counsel, Dept, of Public Safety, for defendant-appellee.
    Before BOUTALL, SCHOTT and MORIAL, JJ.
   SCHOTT, Judge.

Plaintiff, having been once convicted of driving while intoxicated in March, 1970, was in November, 1973, again charged with driving while intoxicated. He then entered a plea of guilty to driving while intoxicated, the first offense, was sentenced accordingly, and the court recommended that his driver’s license not be revoked.

This appeal is from a dismissal of his petition for an injunction against the defendant from suspending or revoking his driver’s license pursuant to LSA-R.S. 32:414, subd. B.

His contention that he cannot be treated as a second offender under the cited statute because he pleaded guilty and was sentenced as a first offender upon his second conviction has already been passed upon by this Court in Smith v. Department of Public Safety, 254 So.2d 515 (La.App. 4th Cir. 1971).

Affirmed.