Smith v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant was found guilty and assessed a §25 fine for *186operating a motor vehicle upon a public highway while his operator’s license was suspended.

The undisputed evidence shows that appellant had not surrendered his operator’s license and was not aware that the Texas Department of Public Safety had ordered his license suspended until after the complaint upon which he was convicted had been filed.

The state’s evidence was to the effect that appellant’s operator’s license was suspended by order of the Texas Department of Public Safety on February 25, 1958, under authority of an…