Rita Ann Jenkins v. State of Mississippi

Summary

The court affirmed Jenkins’s conviction for third-offense DUI, holding that the challenged instruction correctly stated that the State need not prove a particular level of impairment or impairment of driving ability for a liquor-based DUI charge. It also held that the requested defense instruction was properly refused because its initial version misstated the law and its revised substance was fairly covered by other instructions. The court concluded that the jury instructions, read as a whole, did not create reversible error.