FLETCHER v. STATE

No. 29976.

317 S.W.2d 57 (1958)

Eddie FLETCHER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 22, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McGowen & Magee, Monahans, for appellant.

John B. Stapleton, Dist. Atty., Floydada, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder without malice under Article 802c, Vernon's Ann.P.C., with two prior convictions alleged for enhancement; the punishment, life.

The State's evidence amply established the appellant's intoxication on the night in question and that while driving his automobile, in which were found numerous bottles of intoxicants, he passed through a stop sign and ran into the side of an automobile occupied by the deceased, thus...

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