[Download] "State V. Clarkson" by New Mexico Supreme Court # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State V. Clarkson
- Author : New Mexico Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 12, 1954
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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The deceased, Thomas H. Patterson and two ladies had attended a picture show at a drive-in theater on West Central Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the evening of the fatal accident in a car recently purchased by Wagner. They left the theater grounds shortly after midnight, drove upon Central Avenue and then east in the right-hand lane of traffic approximately one block, when the lights on the car failed and the engine stalled. Wagner got the parking and tail lights burning, but the battery was too weak to start the engine; whereupon, with Patterson on the left side and Wagner on the right side, they started pushing the car off the black-top onto an eighteen-foot gravel shoulder. The street at this point had four paved lanes of travel, with a divider in the center. As the car was being pushed, the defendant and a woman companion were returning from a night club west of the theater where they had spent some three and a half hours dancing, during which time they testified each had drunk two "Coke Highs" with a jigger of bourbon, and in addition, the defendant said be had a beer at the bar. There is no proof they were under the influence of intoxicating liquor.