WASHINGTON v. STATE

No. 33639.

349 S.W.2d 724 (1961)

Willie B. WASHINGTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 2, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. L. Hicks, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally and Carol S. Vance, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is under Art. 802c, Vernon's Ann.P.C., for the offense of murder without malice; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for four years.

The evidence was undisputed that the deceased was killed in a collision between the automobile in which she was riding and which was being driven by her husband, and an automobile driven by appellant. The collision occurred in the city of Houston in the 2900 block of the Eastex Freeway...

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