Ben Cannon Wherry v. State

In The Court of Appeals Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana No. 06-19-00032-CR BEN CANNON WHERRY, Appellant V. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee On Appeal from the 4th District Court Rusk County, Texas Trial Court No. CR17-313 Before Morriss, C.J., Burgess and Stevens, JJ. Memorandum Opinion by Justice Stevens MEMORANDUM OPINION The State indicted Ben Cannon Wherry for manslaughter after he killed Jevon Ray Ford, Jr., in a traffic accident. A Rusk County jury acquitted Wherry of manslaughter, but convicted him of the lesser-included offense of criminally negligent homicide and assessed…