Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 10/1/1996

State v. Turner

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953 S.W.2d 213
1996 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 618

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holding that DUI is a strict liability offense which requires no intent to violate the law
holding that Tenn. Code A nn.§ 55-10-4 01(a) “pla inly dispensed with” mens rea by defining the offense of driving under the influence to encompass the mere physical control of a vehicle.
noting that criminal liability requires the performance of a voluntary act
legislature’s statutory definition of the offense of driving under the influence without reference to a culpable mental state “plainly dispenses with the mental element”
no crime of being in control of a vehicle while intoxicated, a strict liability offense, if an intoxicated person’s friends carry him into his car and leave him there
“[I]n enacting the driving while intoxicated statute, the legislature desired not only to prohibit the operation of a vehicle by an intoxicated individual, but also to remove from the inebriated the option of operating a vehicle.”

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Judges: Hayes, Jones, Summers

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