MITCHELL v. STATE

No. 29534.

312 S.W.2d 245 (1958)

Sam MITCHELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 19, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Shown, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is driving a motor vehicle upon a public highway while intoxicated; the punishment, 90 days in jail and a fine of $200.

A seventeen year old school girl received a broken arm as the result of being struck by a flat bed truck being driven south on Yale Street, in Houston.

The driver did not stop.

Appellant was shortly thereafter taken from a red flat bed Ford truck, some...

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