Pena v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant is charged by complaint with unlawfully operating “* * * a motor vehicle, to-wit: an automobile upon a public highway * * The case was tried to the court, without a jury, who assessed a fine of $50.00.

Only one witness, a policeman, testified in the case. In the *638evening, after dark, he received a call to go to the 300 block of South Flores Street, to the scene of an accident. When he arrived he found a truck had run into the rear end of another truck parked along the street. The driver of the truck was not there but returned in about ten minutes. Appellant told the…