Case ID: mich-app_19/html/0551-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. RUZICKA
    Automobiles — Motor Vehicle Code — Drivers — Impairment op Ability — Statutes.
    A motor vehicle eode provision making it unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle while his ability to do so has been impaired by intoxicating liquor is not applicable to offenses committed before Mareh 10, 1967, its effective date (MCLA § 257.265b).
    Reference por Points in Headnote
    50 Am Jur, Statutes §§ 478, 480,
    Appeal from Washtenaw, James R. Breakey, Jr., J.
    Submitted Division 2 October 8, 1969, at Lansing.
    (Docket No. 5,825.)
    Decided October 27, 1969.
    William Ruzicka was convicted by a jury of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William F. Delhey, Prosecuting Attorney, and Karl V. Fink, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      Nick Arvan, for defendant.
    Before: Quinn, P. J., and Bronson and T. M. Burns, JJ.
   Per Curiam.

On appeal to circuit court from his conviction in municipal court for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor contrary to MCLA § 257.625 (Stat Ann 1968 Rev § 9.2325), a jury found defendant guilty of the same offense. He was sentenced and he appeals.

It is defendant’s contention that he was entitled to the benefit of MCLA § 257.625b (Stat Ann 1968 Rev § 9.2325 [2]), and .that it was reversible error for the trial judge to refuse to give a requested instruction that defendant might be found guilty of impaired driving under the latter statute.

December 23, 1966, defendant was arrested for driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. MCLA § 257.625b was added by PA 1966, No 243, effective March 10,1967. In denying defendant’s requested instruction on impaired driving, the trial judge ruled that MCLA § 257.625b was ex post facto and inapplicable to the offense of December 23, 1966.

The trial judge was correct; see People v. Marshall (1961), 362 Mich 170, 174.

Affirmed.