State (McGroddy) v Carr
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1975 |
| Date | 01 January 1975 |
| Docket Number | [1973 No. 267 SS.] |
| Court | Supreme Court |
Uncertainty -Duplicity - Charge of driving while under the influence of "intoxicating liquor or a drug" -Whether one or two offences - Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24), s. 49.
The prosecutor had been charged in the District Court with having driven on a certain occasion a motor car in a public place "while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a drug" to such an extent as to have been incapable of having proper control of the said vehicle contrary to s. 49 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961; and he had been convicted of "the said offence". The prosecutor obtained in the High Court an absolute order of certiorari quashing the order of conviction, made by the respondent District Justice, on the ground that such order was bad for duplicity. On appeal by the respondent it was Held by the Supreme Court (Henchy and Griffin JJ.; Walsh J. dissenting), in allowing the appeal, that the prosecutor had been convicted of a single offence and that, accordingly, the order of conviction was...
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