Brown v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is driving an automobile while intoxicated, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

The prosecution is under Art. 802, P. C. 1925, which penalizes the act of one driving a motor vehicle upon any public highway while the person is intoxicated or under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Without stating but merely summarizing the facts as they appear in the record, the following statement is made: Morris, the owner of a Ford automobile in which he and others were traveling, stopped on the right-hand side of a public road where it…