Brannon v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

*620The conviction is for negligent homicide of the second degree; the punishment, one year in jail.

The second count in the information alleged, the state’s proof showed, and the jury found that the appellant while operating his automobile in excess of fifty miles per hour upon a public street and highway, to wit, the Gulf Freeway, within the corporate limits of the city of Houston, Texas, drove it into and collided with an automobile occupied by Walter Muetz and the impact thereof caused the death of the said Walter Muetz.

Proof was offered showing that the collision here in…