Houston v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Pete Houston was convicted of murder in the District Court of Palo Pinto County and assessed a penalty of two years in the penitentiary, from which he appeals.

The second count in the indictment alleges that on or about the 21st day of January, 1940, “while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, the appellant drove and operated a motor vehicle upon a public highway and that while thus violating a felony statute he did, through mistake and accident, kill Vera Coleman by causing it to collide with an automobile in which she was riding, thereby jarring and bruising the body…