Hollingsworth v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of five years.

Appellant was charged by indictment under Article 802c, Ver. Ann. P. C., with unlawfully driving and operating a motor vehicle upon a public highway of this state while intoxicated, and did then and there, in the execution of said unlawful act, through mistake and accident kill Glen Edward Gartner, Jr., by then and there driving said automobile into and causing it to collide with and strike Glen Edward Gartner, Jr.

The statement of facts in this case, according to the…