Baggett v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged under Art. 802c, Vernon’s Ann. *620P.C., with the offense of driving while intoxicated and by accident and mistake, as he approached an automobile upon a public highway, he struck and thereby killed one, William Thompson. Upon his conviction therefor, he was assessed a penalty of two years in the state penitentiary.

The testimony shows that one, Luther Rainey, and his married daughter, with two babies and two other children of Rainey, together with his father-in-law, William Thompson, the deceased, were riding in Mr. Rainey’s pickup truck on a highway in Bowie…