Bowles v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is negligent homicide; the punishment, confinement in jail for six months.

The complaint and information embraced separate counts charging negligent homicide of the first degree and negligent homicide of the second degree. The trial was before the court without the intervention of a jury. After hearing the evidence, the trial court merely found appellant guilty and assessed his punishment at confinement in jail for six months. Nowhere in the judgment was it stated whether the appellant had been found guilty of negligent homicide of the first degree or of the second…