Davis v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary on a jury’s verdict finding him guilty of, failing to stop and render aid to a party whom he had -injured by striking her with his automobile.

The accident occurred on the highway running west and near the edge of the town of Mineral Wells. The hour was late and appellant, with two men and a girl in his car, was travelling west. Two military policemen in a jeep had stopped on the north side of the road, their car facing east, and were talking to two soldiers and two girls. Appellant’s car was observed as swaying from one…