Crabb v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

The issue before us in the instant case is identical to that in Robbins v. State, 717 S.W.2d 348 (1986) involving the trial court’s charge to the jury on the issue of causation in an involuntary manslaughter case. A jury convicted appellant of involuntary manslaughter and assessed punishment at eight years’ confinement. The Fort Worth Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. Crabb v. State, 683 S.W.2d 894 (Tex.App.— Ft. Worth, 1985).

The record shows that appellant drove his automobile at an excessive speed, failed to…