Derry v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

It was charged against appellant that while intoxicated be drove an automobile upon a public highway, and while so driving said automobile he through accident or mistake killed L. V. Beck and G. B. Sinclair. Appellant was convicted and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

On the night of the accident the two partes killed, and other parties were in a truck driving towards Beaumont. The lights on the truck flickered and the truck was stopped on the side of the road, the right wheels being on the shoulder of the road and the left…