Was your car operable? If your car was incapable of moving without the assistance of another i.e. engine damage the State cannot prove you were in actual physical control of the vehicle. This defense often times arises in accident cases or in cases where the Defendant’s vehicle has broken down. The State will attempt to prove you drove the vehicle to the place where it became inoperable by circumstantial evidence. The State Attorney’s office in Hillsborough County must rebut every reasonable hypothesis of innocence in order to gain a conviction.