Court Opinion

ID: 9848911
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:29:45.4758+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:53.352286
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Beasley, Judge,
concurring specially.
While I agree with all that is said, I wish to point out a disturbingly common problem.
The confusion here occurred because the state brought a duplicitous accusation, which was not demurred to. See Peters v. State, 175 Ga. App. 463 (333 SE2d 436) (1985). The fact that multiple crimes were charged is apparently the reason the court instructed the jury with regard to the presumptions even though it did not have to do so. Whether those instructions were correctly stated as accurate statements of the law is immaterial. The accusation did include a charge of driving while there was .12 percent or more by weight of alcohol in defendant’s blood, the evidence proved it, the court instructed on it, and the jury was authorized and did find defendant guilty of it.
I am authorized to state that Judge Pope joins in this special concurrence.