Walters v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a case of negligent homicide of the second degree; the punishment, confinement in the county jail for ninety days.

The unlawful act relied upon as constituting the offense charged was the operation of a motor vehicle in an incorporated city at a greater rate of speed than thirty miles per hour.

The proof shows that appellant, while driving his automobile upon a public street in the city of Wichita Falls at a high rate of speed estimated at fifty or sixty miles per hour, struck the deceased, hurling the body about seventy feet away — as a result of which death ensued a…