CRUZ v. STATE

No. 31066.

329 S.W.2d 92 (1959)

Dora Silva CRUZ, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 18, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No attorney on appeal, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Alex Guevara, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, 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.

Houston Police Officers Murphy and Mask testified that they arrested appellant on the night in question for a moving traffic violation, that they detected the odor of alcohol on her breath, that her speech was mumbled "like she was chewing something," that she staggered when she walked, that...

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