Coming before Griffith Local Court on Wednesday, 53-year-old Andrew Clive Baker was also charged with driving an unregistered car and driving without supervision on L-plates.

Police noticed Baker pull up at a service station on Banna Avenue for a packet of cigarettes at 2am.

When breath tested, he blew a 0.255 reading.

Baker's legal representative Piers Blomfield told of Baker's battle with alcohol raging through most of his life, leading him to decide driving was not for him.

"He has had over 20 years not driving... and it was quite out of character for him to drive on this occasion," he explained.

He said Baker attended alcohol and depression counselling, and that his issues "didn't normally lead him to criminal behaviour."

"He is not fussed with a disqualification or the interlock as he as no intentions of driving."

Magistrate Joy Boulos said he had given "a very honest account" of his situation in submissions made to court.

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She read "this has reconfirmed my decision to never drive again" out his final reflection from the Traffic Offenders Program.

"Not the typical learner driver", she warned had there been anything aggravating about his driving he would have been sent straight to jail.

"I am going to make sure you don't regain your license for a long time."

He was convicted, placed on a community corrections order for 15 months, disqualified for nine months with the mandatory interlock for 24 months.

He was fined $100 for driving the unregistered car, and no further penalty for driving without supervision.