SKELTON v. STATE

No. 29174.

306 S.W.2d 127 (1957)

Arthur Weston SKELTON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 23, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Bruner, of Daugherty & Bruner, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Charles D. Cabaniss and A. D. Bowie, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is driving while intoxicated; the punishment, three days in jail and a fine of $100.

The trial was before the court without the intervention of a jury.

Deputy Sheriff Smith testified that, while on patrol on the day in question, he observed a pickup truck "weaving back and forth, from on the shoulder back onto the right of way," that he turned on his siren and brought the truck to a halt, that the appellant who...

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