Lohmuller v. State

OPINION

VANCE, Justice.

We must decide whether a driver, who has a policy of liability insurance in effect at the time of an accident but allows his driver’s ’license to be suspended after a judgment is rendered against him, is entitled to have a later charge of “driving while license suspended” dismissed when he produces the insurance policy at the criminal trial. We conclude that he is not. We reverse the conviction, however, because the court failed to charge the jury on the definition of reasonable doubt.

PROCEDURE

Howard Lohmuller was convicted in a jury trial of driving a motor vehicle…