Tennessee Drunk Driving Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Tennessee or Court of Appeals of Tennessee where the terms dui, dwi, drunk driving, or driving under the influence has been mentioned. These cases are not necessarily criminal cases and may include cases where the facts or court decision merely mentions drunk driving related legal terms. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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State v. Reid - 7/12/2000
The Williamson County grand jury indicted the appellant, Michael S. Reid, with one (1) count of driving under the influence, third offense, one (1) count of driving on a revoked license and one (1) count of criminal impersonation. The...
State v. Adkisson - 7/10/2000
Introduction
The defendant, Jeffrey Wayne Adkisson, appeals from a Morgan County jury verdict convicting him of one count of D.U.I. For this offense, he was sentenced to eleven months and twenty-nine days with four days to...
State v. Childress - 7/7/2000
The Defendant was found guilty by a Davidson County jury of driving with a blood alcohol concentration of .10 percent or more (D.U.I. per se) and driving on a revoked license. In this appeal as of right, he argues that the trial court...
State v.Yarbro - 6/30/2000
The defendant appeals his conviction by a Hardin County jury of possession of cocaine with intent to sell. The defendant now contends that the evidence was insufficient for a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt...
State v. White - 6/30/2000
The defendant appeals his convictions by a Hardin County jury of violating the Habitual Motor Vehicle Offender Act and failing to give immediate notice of an accident. The defendant was classified as a Range II Multiple Offender and...
State v. Davis - 6/30/2000
The defendant appeals his sentence for driving under the influence first offense, a Class A misdemeanor. He entered an open plea of guilty and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days, with 120 days to be served in confinement and...
State v. Thacker - 6/30/2000
The defendant pled guilty to vehicular assault as the result of intoxication and driving on a revoked license. The trial court imposed a three-year sentence for the vehicular assault, and, on appeal, the defendant contends that the...
State v. Farner - 6/30/2000
The defendant, John R Farner, Jr., appeals his convictions by a jury for two counts of criminally negligent homicide, two counts of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, drag racing, and leaving the scene of an accident involving...
State v. Echols - 6/28/2000
The defendant appeals the trial court's dismissal of his appeal from the general sessions court and alleges that he should be excused from serving a 1993 DUI incarcerative sentence on the basis that the sentence has expired. The trial...
State v. Watson - 6/23/2000
A Davidson County jury convicted the appellant, Terry M. Watson, of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, fifth offense. The trial court sentenced the appellant to eleven (11) months and twenty-nine (29) days, suspended after...
State v. Devers - 6/23/2000
Helen Dixon Devers appeals her conviction by a jury in the Wayne County Circuit Court of one count of driving under the influence, first offense, a class A misdemeanor, and one count of resisting arrest, a class B misdemeanor. Pursuant...
State v. Harris - 6/23/2000
The defendant was convicted of rape, rape of a child, aggravated assault, and attempted sexual battery. An effective sentence of thirty- two years at thirty percent was imposed. On direct appeal, this court affirmed the convictions but...
State v. Herrell - 6/23/2000
The defendant, William Ricky Wayne Herrell, appeals his sentences resulting from his convictions following guilty pleas to two counts of burglary, two counts of theft of property valued over one thousand dollars, one count of obtaining...
State v. Tate - 6/16/2000
The appellant was convicted of driving under the influence, third offense. In this direct appeal, the appellant challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence, the constitutionality of his initial stop by the police, and the...
State v. Holscher - 6/15/2000
The defendant was convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant and sentenced to 11 months, 29 days, with all but 15 days suspended. In this appeal, the defendant contends that the trial court erred by admitting the results...
State v. Kelly - 6/9/2000
The evidence was sufficient to establish the guilt of the defendant, Edward L. Kelly, of driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Because there was proof that his blood alcohol content was over .20% and that he was in physical...
State v. Black - 6/8/2000
Defendant Audrey Black pled guilty to three counts of selling cocaine and she received concurrent sentences of nine years for each conviction, with thirty days to be served in jail and eight years and eleven months to be served in the...
State v. Haas - 6/8/2000
Defendant Vernon E. Haas pled guilty to the Class E felony offense of violating a Habitual Motor Vehicle Offender order that prohibited him from driving. The trial court subsequently sentenced Defendant as a Range II multiple offender...
State v. Lane - 6/1/2000
James M. Lane, Jr. appeals by permission of the trial and appellate courts. Indicted for two counts of aggravated perjury, he alleges that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to reverse the district attorney general's...
State v. McConnell - 5/30/2000
The appellant, Edward Talmadge McConnell, appeals his convictions by a jury in the Washington County Criminal Court of aggravated rape and failure to appear. For the offense of aggravated rape, the trial court sentenced the appellant...
State v. England - 5/30/2000
FOR PUBLICATION
This is an appeal from the Criminal Court for Sumner County, which granted the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained from a canine sweep of his legally detained motor vehicle. The trial court concluded...
Blye v. State - 5/26/2000
Petitioner Brent Allen Blye filed a petition for post-conviction relief in the Sullivan County Criminal Court. Following an evidentiary hearing, the post-conviction court denied the petition. Petitioner challenges that denial, raising...
State v. Hicks - 5/19/2000
The Defendant, Larry Allen Hicks, was indicted by a Hamilton County Grand Jury for unlawful and knowing possession of marijuana, a controlled substance, with intent to sell or deliver, in violation of Tennessee Code Annotated §...
State v. Orr - 5/19/2000
The appellant, David Carl Orr, was convicted in the Madison County Circuit Court of voluntary manslaughter. The trial court sentenced the appellant as a standard, Range I offender to four years and six months in the Tennessee...
State v. Allen - 5/19/2000
The appellant was convicted at a bench trial of DUI, third offense. Prior to his trial, he entered guilty pleas to driving on a suspended license - seventh offense, evading arrest and speeding. On appeal, the appellant contends: (1)...
State v. Jarnagin - 5/12/2000
The defendant appeals his convictions and sentences for improper passing and driving under the influence. We affirm the trial court as we are not persuaded that insufficient evidence supported the convictions, that the admission of the...
State v. Davidson - 5/12/2000
A jury found the defendant guilty of two second degree murders, and he received two consecutive 25 year sentences. Identification of the bodies and cause of death were difficult because the bodies had been burned. Sufficient evidence...
State v. Williams - 5/5/2000
In this appeal of right from the Shelby County Criminal Court, the defendant contends that his de novo appeal from a judgment of the General Sessions Court was erroneously dismissed at a status hearing. Because the Criminal Court Clerk...
State v. Neal - 5/5/2000
The defendant, Eronia Neal, entered a guilty plea to attempted theft over $1,000.00. The trial court approved a Range II sentence of four years, denied probation, and ordered service of the sentence in the county workhouse. The...
State v. Brumit - 4/28/2000
The Defendant was convicted in the Rutherford County Circuit Court of two counts of first degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit first degree murder, and he appealed. Court of Criminal Appeals, Welles, J., affirmed,...
State v. Brown - 4/28/2000
The record reflects that the defendant was stopped by an officer of the Metro Police Department in Nashville for a traffic violation. The basis for the stop was that the defendant failed to use a turn signal while making a right hand...
State v. Land - 4/28/2000
The appellant, Samuel D. Land, was found guilty by a jury of one count of felony evading arrest and one count driving on a revoked license, second offense. He was sentenced, as a career offender, to twelve years in the Department of...
State v. Ray - 4/20/2000
The defendant/appellant, Lori Reeves Ray, appeals as of right from the revocation of her probation by the Dyer County Circuit Court. The defendant presents one appellate issue: Whether the trial court abused its discretion by revoking...
State v. Gilliam - 4/12/2000
The defendant, Michael T. Gilliam, appeals from his Class E felony conviction of manufacturing marijuana. The trial court imposed the maximum sentence of two years to be served in the Department of Correction. In this appeal, the...
State v. Dickerson - 4/7/2000
ORDER
A Rutherford County jury convicted the appellant, Dennis O. Dickerson, of driving under the influence, sixth offense. The trial court sentenced the appellant to eleven (11) months and twenty-nine (29) days, suspended after...
State v. Robinson - 4/7/2000
Julian P. Guinn, Judge
The Defendant, Everett Dale Robinson, appeals as of right from his conviction pursuant to a jury verdict of fourth offense driving under the influence (DUI). On appeal, he challenges only the sufficiency of...
State v. Adams - 3/31/2000
The appellant, Susan L. Adams, a/k/a Shannon Adams, referred herein as "the defendant," appeals as of right from a sentence imposed by the Williamson County Circuit Court confining her for six (6) months in the Williamson County...
State v. Daniel - 3/31/2000
The Defendant appeals from the sentences imposed by the trial court. He was convicted, upon his pleas of guilty, of three counts of vehicular homicide by intoxication. The trial judge sentenced him to three concurrent terms of twelve...
State v. Trull - 3/31/2000
The appellant, Danny Ray Trull, appeals his convictions in the Circuit Court of Hickman County of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, and evading arrest. Pursuant to these convictions, the trial court imposed consecutive...
State v. Lay - 3/30/2000
C.C.A. NO. 01C01-9811-CC-00453
WILLIAMSON COUNTY HON. TIMOTHY L. EASTER JUDGE
(Direct Appeal - D.U.I.)
Opinion on Rehearing
AFFIRMED
OPINION ON PETITION TO REHEAR
In September, 1998, the appellant,...
State v. Lambert - 3/20/2000
The appellant, Ladonna Kay Lambert, entered a guilty plea in the Sullivan County Criminal Court to one (1) count of driving under the influence of an intoxicant. In lieu of the mandatory minimum 48 hours incarceration for a first...
State v. Osborn - 3/13/2000
HAMILTON COUNTY
HON. DOUGLAS A. MEYER JUDGE
(Direct Appeal - D.U.I. Third Offense)
AFFIRMED PURSUANT TO RULE 20
ORDER
Paul Raymond Osborn, the defendant and appellant, was convicted by a Hamilton County...
Kelly v. State - 3/7/2000
The petitioner, Jennifer Kelly, appeals the denial by the Madison County Circuit Court of her petition for habeas corpus relief on April 27, 1999. Specifically, the petitioner challenges the execution of a five day sentence of...
Rutherford v. State - 3/6/2000
The petitioner, Johnny Rutherford, appeals as of right the Anderson County Criminal Court's denial of his petition for post-conviction relief. He seeks relief from his 1986 convictions for armed robbery, aggravated kidnapping, and...
State v. Moss - 3/6/2000
The defendant, William H. Moss, was convicted pursuant to a guilty plea entered on March 17, 1998, in the Criminal Court for Anderson County of a Class A misdemeanor offense of DUI, third offense. For this conviction, he was...
McClure v. McClure - 3/2/2000
This is a divorce case. The trial court awarded the husband sole custody of the parties' children and ordered the wife to pay child support. Supervised visitation was awarded to the wife, and visitation was also awarded to the...
State v. Mealer - 2/29/2000
Defendant was indicted for driving on a revoked license (DORL) and driving under the influence (DUI), third offense. Defendant pled guilty to DORL, and a jury convicted her of DUI, second offense. The trial court then sentenced...
Sneed v. State - 2/25/2000
On April 16, 1997, the Hamilton County Grand Jury indicted the Defendant, Charles Robert Sneed, for driving under the influence. The indictment was later amended to add as a second count an allegation that the Defendant had four...
State v. Smith - 2/24/2000
The defendant, David William Smith, was indicted by the Sullivan County Grand Jury and charged with five counts of attempted first degree murder. Following the first trial, the jury found him not guilty of attempted first degree...
State v. Moore - 2/23/2000
The defendant, Ralph Dewayne Moore, was indicted for driving under the influence of an intoxicant and leaving the scene of an accident. By agreement of the state, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to reckless driving; the second...
State v. Baird - 2/16/2000
The defendant, Lester Boyd Baird, appeals his Rutherford County Circuit Court bench trial conviction of driving under the influence, second offense, a class A misdemeanor. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-401 (1997). He was sentenced to...
State v. Bridges - 2/10/2000
The defendant, Donald Scott Bridges, appeals from the trial court's imposition of incarcerative sentencing for twenty crimes to which he pleaded guilty. Bridges plea was based upon an agreement regarding the length of each sentence...
State v. Lockhart - 2/7/2000
Defendant Ronald Lockhart appeals as of right from his conviction by a Hamblen County jury of driving under the influence, third offense, and driving with a revoked license. Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to...
State v. Key - 2/3/2000
Defendant Lisa Key was indicted by the Greene County Grand jury for possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell or deliver and for possession of drug paraphernalia. Following a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of...
State v. Edwards - 2/2/2000
The appellant, Byron M. Edwards, was found guilty by a Blount County jury of one count of aggravated robbery, a class B felony. Following a sentencing hearing, the trial court sentenced the appellant as a career offender to thirty...
State v. Young - 1/28/2000
Defendant, Virgil Lynn Young, appeals the trial court's revocation of his placement in a community corrections program and the reinstatement of his original sentence. After a review of the record the Court finds that this judgment...
State v. Solomon - 1/27/2000
The defendant, Timothy Jason Solomon, appeals as of right from the Knox County Criminal Court's imposition of consecutive sentences. Upon his guilty pleas, the defendant was convicted of seven counts of burglary, a Class D felony. He...
State v. Anderson - 1/26/2000
Hon. James E. Beckner, Judge
OPINION FILED:
CONVICTION AFFIRMED; SENTENCE MODIFIED
David G. Hayes, Judge
OPINION The appellant, Ballard Eugene Anderson, appeals his conviction by a Hancock County jury for the...
State v. Clayton - 1/26/2000
The Defendant appeals from a conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, third offense. He argues that his conviction should be reversed because the trial court erred in...
State v. Krantz - 1/25/2000
The Tennessee Supreme Court remanded this case to us for reconsideration of our prior holding regarding the state's loss or destruction of the defendant's blood sample in light of State v. Ferguson, 2 S.W.3d 912 (Tenn. 1999). We...
State v. Mathes - 1/21/2000
The Defendant, Garry Lee Mathes, was indicted for felony reckless endangerment and felony evading arrest and was subsequently found guilty by a Washington County jury of misdemeanor reckless endangerment and felony evading arrest. He...
State v. Crouch - 1/18/2000
The defendant, Alaric Barret Crouch, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence but reserved, with the consent of the state and the trial court, a certified question of law for appeal. See Tenn. R. Crim. P. 37(b)(2)(i), (iv). In...
State v. Neal - 1/18/2000
The appellant, David Neal, referred hereinafter as the "defendant," appeals as of right pursuant to Rule 3 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure. As a result of a Wilson County jury finding the defendant guilty of voluntary...
State v. McGhee - 1/14/2000
The defendant, Tamela Grace McGhee, alias, appeals as of right from her conviction for voluntary manslaughter, a Class C felony, following a bench trial in the Hamilton County Criminal Court. She was sentenced as a Range I, standard...
State v. Ballinger - 1/9/2000
On October 14, 1998, a Bradley County Grand Jury indicted Charles Ballinger, the defendant and appellant, for statutory rape and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Following a jury trial, the defendant was convicted on both...
State v. Wagner - 12/30/1999
On February 26, 1996, the Madison County Grand Jury indicted the Defendant, William Curtis Wagner, on eight counts of aggravated assault, three counts of vandalism, three counts of leaving the scene of an accident, and one count each...
State v. Battles - 12/30/1999
The defendant, Gregory Scott Battles, appeals his Hardin County conviction and the resulting sentence by the trial court. A jury convicted the defendant of DUI, second offense, a Class A misdemeanor. After a sentencing hearing, the...
State v. Capley - 12/29/1999
The defendant, Johnnie Shane Capley, appeals from his sentences imposed for his Williamson County Criminal Court convictions. The defendant pleaded guilty to simple possession of marijuana, a Class A misdemeanor; burglary, a Class D...
State v. Johnson - 12/29/1999
The defendant, Jimmy D. Johnson, appeals as of right from the Blount County Circuit Court's revocation of his probation. The defendant pled guilty to incest, a Class C felony, and was sentenced as a Range I, standard offender to six...
State v. Boone - 12/29/1999
In January of 1998, the Defendant, Mark Lee Boone, was convicted of the following crimes: aggravated vehicular homicide; vehicular assault; fourth offense DUI; possession of marijuana; possession of drug paraphernalia; driving on a...
State v. Black - 12/29/1999
The Defendant, Don Palmer Black, appeals as of right his conviction pursuant to a Hamilton County jury verdict finding him guilty of second offense driving under the influence of an intoxicant. He raises the following four issues for...
State v. Hastings - 12/29/1999
On May 20, 1998, the Davidson County Grand Jury indicted Defendant Shirley R. Hastings in case 98-T-502 for seventh offense driving under the influence ("DUI") and for violating the habitual motor vehicle offender ("HMVO") law. On...
State v. Neely - 12/28/1999
A Davidson County jury convicted defendant of driving under the influence (DUI.) The sole issue in this appeal as of right is sufficiency of the convicting evidence. Upon our review of the record, we AFFIRM the judgment of the trial...
State v. Ford - 12/28/1999
The Warren County Grand Jury indicted Defendant Jerry Wayne Ford for driving under the influence ("DUI"), fourth offense, and for driving on a revoked license ("DORL"). The charge for DORL was later retired. Following a jury trial...
State v. Cooke - 12/28/1999
The Defendant, John D. Cooke, III, was convicted by a Madison County jury of aggravated sexual battery, assault, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and unlawful possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to nine years for...
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