Court Opinion

ID: 9852124
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:24:52.871183+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:22.887627
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Deen, Judge,
concurring in the judgment only. For over *805four hours between the time of the collision and the time of the blood test the whereabouts of this defendant were unknown. Therefore, to allow in evidence the result of an alcohol blood test made some four and a half hours after the defendant had ceased driving for the purpose of proving that he was intoxicated while driving (the gravamen of the offense of involuntary manslaughter in the commission of an unlawful act) is to allow circumstantial evidence of no probative value, since it was equally possible for the defendant to have drunk the whiskey after as before the wreck.