Powell v. State

341 S.W.2d 915 (1961)

Carl W. POWELL, Jr., Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 32739.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 11, 1961.

Wilson F. Walters, Denison, for appellant.

Dean Martin, County Atty., Richard B. Pennell, Clifford Powell, Asst. County Attys., Sherman, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for failure to stop and render aid; the punishment, one year in jail and a fine of $500.

The indictment alleged that appellant, while operating and controlling an automobile, struck Thomas Abner Langford with said…