Wallace v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was charged by indictment in the District Court of Coleman County with the offense of murder and, upon conviction, was assessed a penalty of two years in the penitentiary, from which he appeals.

It is alleged that the offense was committed on the 5th day of July, 1941, while driving a motor vehicle on a public highway under the influence of intoxicating liquor and that in so driving, through accident and mistake, caused his automobile to collide with another automobile in which Mary Alice LeSuer was riding and that he thereby did jar and bruise the body of deceased…