Show I DRUNKEN DRIVING A JURY in the Third district court was discharged discharged discharged dis- dis A I charged a few days ago for its failure to toI agree upon a verdict in the case of a barber who was charged with drunken driving The testimony of the arresting officer was that the man was driving a car in a reckless manner and that when arrested the driver was adjudged by the officer l to be under the influence of liquor The naive defense was that while the driver had taken one drink he was not in in- in He admitted the drink but it it- made him ill There can be no question from the evidence evi evidence evi evi- dence clence that the liquor even if it was only one drink incapacitated him to the extent that he became a menace on the highway endangering endangering endangering gering the lives and property of others Whether an auto driver takes one drink or twenty he is intoxicated if he operates his hiscar hiscar hiscar car in a reckless less dangerous manner It is announced by the prosecution the case will be retried Probably there will be beno beno beno no new evidence but there will be a different jury which will be a comforting knowledge to most motorists who are at the mercy of the drunken driver |