Legal Opinion

Waites v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 26, 1966No. 39029Published

1Opinion

*246ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

BELCHER, Commissioner.

Complaint is again made of the following definition given in the charge to the jury:

“By the term ‘under the influence of intoxicating Liquor’ is meant that a person has taken into his stomach a sufficient quantity of intoxicating liquor to deprive him of the normal control of his bodily or mental faculties.”

Appellant insists that reversible error is shown because the portion of the definition which reads “to deprive him of the normal control of his bodily or mental faculties,” should have been given in the conjunctive instead of the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Kirk v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1966

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