Potts v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for aggravated assault with a motor vehicle; the punishment, confinement in jail for 365 days.

Officer C. G. Wright of the Houston Police Department testified that while on duty and driving his patrol car on Richmond road, he observed a 1956 Ford car run a stop sign on Hazard street; that he attempted to stop the car but the driver tried to outrun him: that he proceeded to pursue the car through the residential area on various public streets for a distance of 5.4 miles with the speedometer on his car at one point reading 120 miles per hour; that during the later…