Hatley v. State

KRUEGER, Judge. —

Appellant was convicted of murder and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of three years.

It was charged in the indictment that on or about the 3rd day of October, 1936, Grafton Hatley, while intoxicated and under the influence of intoxicating liquor, did drive and operate an automobile upon Spring Street, within the limits of the incorporated City of Brackettville, in Kinney County, Texas, and while in the execution of said unlawful act did through mistake and accident kill Lucy Hall by driving said automobile into, and causing it…