Maxey v. State

GRAVES, Presiding Judge.

Negligent homicide of the second degree is the offense; the punishment, two years in jail.

The unlawful acts relied upon as constituting negligence are (a) the failure to yield the right-of-way to an automobile in which deceased was riding and which was proceeding along and upon a through public highway and which automobile was approaching so closely on said through highway as to constitute an immediate hazard (Art. 6701d, Sec. 73, R. C. S.), and (b) the failure to stop at a highway intersection in obedience to a stop sign erected at the intersection by the Texas State…