Graham v. State

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

These are appeals from convictions for criminally negligent homicide. The jury assessed punishment for appellant Graham is a $2,000.00 fine and 270 days in jail; the punishment for appellant Utecht is a $2,000.00 fine and 180 days in jail.

The evidence established that on December 16, 1977, in the early evening, two young couples left Liberty to drive to Pasadena to see an Elvis impersonator at the Cactus Club. Lloyd Gay drove Mary Lou Johnson’s 1977 Pontiac Firebird, carrying her and her brother, Carl Johnson, and his date, Carrie Green. After the show, the couples left…