Opinion
Docket No. 5,825.
Decided October 27, 1969.
Appeal from Washtenaw, James R. Breakey, Jr., J. Submitted Division 2 October 8, 1969, at Lansing. (Docket No. 5,825.) Decided October 27, 1969.
William Ruzicka was convicted by a jury of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Defendant appeals. Affirmed.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William F. Delhey, Prosecuting Attorney, and Karl V. Fink, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
Nick Arvan, for defendant.
Before: QUINN, P.J., and BRONSON and T.M. BURNS, JJ.
On appeal to circuit court from his conviction in municipal court for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor contrary to MCLA § 257.625 (Stat Ann 1968 Rev § 9.2325), a jury found defendant guilty of the same offense. He was sentenced and he appeals.
It is defendant's contention that he was entitled to the benefit of MCLA § 257.625b (Stat Ann 1968 Rev § 9.2325[2]), and that it was reversible error for the trial judge to refuse to give a requested instruction that defendant might be found guilty of impaired driving under the latter statute.
December 23, 1966, defendant was arrested for driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. MCLA § 257.625b was added by PA 1966, No 243, effective March 10, 1967. In denying defendant's requested instruction on impaired driving, the trial judge ruled that MCLA § 257.625b was ex post facto and inapplicable to the offense of December 23, 1966.
The trial judge was correct; see People v. Marshall (1961), 362 Mich. 170, 174.
Affirmed.