Vance v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

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

The evidence was undisputed that on the day in question the appellant, while driving his Chevrolet truck upon the North Freeway, a public street and highway in the city of Houston, was involved in a collision with a Falcon station wagon driven by the deceased. The accident occurred in that portion of the freeway for incoming traffic which contained four lanes, and at the time of the collision both vehicles were traveling in the same…