Davidson v. State

A jury would not be authorized to acquit or to assess a lesser fine or shorter jail term because the defendant would automatically lose his license to drive a motor vehicle.

Aside from the punishment by fine and jail term which the court explained to the jury, other effects of a conviction were not material and were properly excluded.

I respectfully dissent.

ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

MORRISON, Judge.

In a scholarly motion for rehearing and in argument presented by Jim Bowie of the district attorney’s staff, the state has helped the writer reappraise the holding in Taylor v. State, 151 Texas…