SUTTON v. STATE

No. 25678.

247 S.W.2d 894 (1952)

SUTTON v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 26, 1952.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied April 23, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rockey Harkey, Sinton, for appellant.

George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of possessing a narcotic drug and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.

The state's evidence is to the effect that appellant was driving an automobile and at three o'clock in the morning he failed to stop at a stop sign on a farm to market road at the entrance to the main highway and thereby collided with an automobile driven by a boy named George James. The state's evidence by James was that he...

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