Case ID: so2d_551/html/0616-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LEMMON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Plessey L. CHRISTY.
    No. 89-KK-2196.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Nov. 17, 1989.
   In re Christy, Plessey L.; —Defendant(s); Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs; Parish of Lincoln 3rd Judicial District Court Div. “A” Number 32,561; to the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, Number 21464-KW.

Granted. Reversed. No proof of driving while intoxicated.

DIXON, C.J., concurs. See State v. Lindinger, 357 So.2d 500 (La.1978).

LEMMON, J.,

dissents. When the trial judge rejected defendant’s implausible explanation of the circumstances found by the officer, that hypothesis of innocence fell, and the defendant is guilty unless there is another hypothesis which creates a reasonable doubt. State v. Captville, 448 So.2d 676 (La.1984).