Scott v. State

Appellant was convicted of violating the speed law and his punishment was assessed at a fine of $5.

The State's testimony shows that on the 6th day of June, 1937, the sheriff of Coryell County, accompanied by his deputy, were traveling on highway number seven from Gatesville to Waco. They observed appellant in his automobile traveling at the rate of about seventy-five miles per hour and undertook to arrest him. In their efforts, they ran him through the town of Gatesville to a point several miles beyond said town, where appellant's car bogged down in soft ground. The sheriff and his deputy…