Reference: Volume 33F (1948), Part No. 4, Section , Page 735

Judgement Details


Date
18/10/1948
Court
OF CRIMINAL APPEAL (INFERIOR)
Judiciary
HARDING WILLIAM
Parties
THE POLICE vs LT. CDR. JOHN ROBERT WALTER GROVES
ECLI
N/A
Judgement Type
-
Linked Case
N/A

Keywords / Summary


Keywords
DRIVING OF A VEHICLE IN A STATE OF DRUNKENNESS - SECT. 14 CHAP. 105 - TRAFFIC
Summary
Maltese Law prohibits the driving of a motor vehicle in the case of a driver who is under the influence of intoxicant liquor. This prohibiton, however, although the law does not state expressly so. must be taken to mean that the driver must be under the influence of drink to such an extent as to beincapable of having proper control of the vehicle. So that in order to convict on a charge of driving whilst under the influence of intoxicant liquor, it is necessary to satisfy the Court that the state of drunkness was such as to affect the driving, making it unsafe. In this judgement the Courtenumerates the various signs or symptoms which show definitely that a person is drunk in the sense aforesaid.




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