Dugger v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, by forcibly grabbing and turning a steering wheel, the accused is considered to be operating a motor vehicle
• “By forcibly taking the steering over from the driver, appellant manipulated perhaps the most fundamental feature of a moving vehicle—the direction in which it would travel. That deliberate act placed him in actual physical control of. the vehicle.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).