Ward v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Driving an automobile while intoxicated is the offense; punishment fixed at confinement in the county jail for a period of ninety days.

There were three counts in the indictment. The count which was submitted to the jury and upon which the conviction rests contains the following:

“* * * did then and there unlawfully drive and operate an automobile, within the limits of an incorporated city, to-wit: Beaumont, in Jefferson County, Texas, while she, the said Geraldine Ward, was then and there intoxicated, as aforesaid.”

This appeal is upon the proposition that the law upon…