A Perthshire aristocrat denied six motoring charges when he appeared from custody at Perth Sheriff Court this week.
Forty-year-old James Richard Heriot-Maitland, of Errol Park House, near Perth, is accused of failing to co-operate with a preliminary breath test near his home - and then provide two breath specimens for analysis at police headquarters in Dundee.
Represented by local lawyer Pauline Cullerton, he will face trial on March 11, with an earlier hearing set for February 21.
He denied that on December 3, at the West Bell Street police office in Dundee, he failed, without reasonable excuse, to provide the breath specimens.
He is also said to have failed to co-operate with a preliminary breath test the same day at the A90, Perth-Dundee road, at Glendoick.
The charge indicates that he had been required by a uniformed police officer to take part in the procedure after he reasonably suspected Heriot-Maitland of driving a car while having alcohol or a drug in his body or being under the influence of a drug.
A third charge claims that at the A90 - and between there and the West Bell Street police offices - he shouted and swore and uttered violent threats.
Further charges allege that he used the vehicle without insurance and without a test certificate.
The final charge states that having been required to give information as to the identity of the driver of the car to Sgt. Paul Taylor, the accused failed to do so.
Heriot-Maitland was freed on bail meantime.
