Vannoy v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict assessing one year in the county jail of Bexar County on a charge of negligent homicide by reason of having caused the death of a party while driving an automobile in excess of forty-five miles per hour.

The offense is alleged to have occurred on a public highway in Bexar County on the 13th day of October, 1940. The evidence reveals that appellant was a young army officer stationed at *545Randolph Field and was going into the city of San Antonio' at a late hour on highway number eighty-one and that he arrived at a point about three and…