Guzman v. State

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of criminally negligent homicide and assessed punishment at $1,000.00 fine and confinement for three-hundred sixty-five days in the county jail. Tex.Penal Code Ann. § 19.07 (Vernon 1974). By two points of error, appellant contends the evidence was insufficient.

The conviction stems from a motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 495 and “I” Road in Hidalgo County, Texas, in which one person was killed when appellant failed to stop at a stop sign and his vehicle collided with a car in which the deceased was a…