Legal Opinion

Sandoval v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 6, 1967No. 40767PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is a violation of Article 802c, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., charging that appellant, while intoxicated, drove his automobile into a parked wrecker, thereby severing the leg of the son of the driver of the wrecker. The punishment is three years.

Appellant’s first ground of error is that the State failed to prove that appellant was the driver of the automobile which caused the injury. Patrolman Zuniga, who arrived upon the scene of the collision shortly after it had occurred, testified that he walked up to appellant and asked him “what happened”, and appellant “said he…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Hughes v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1955
  2. Thomas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1955

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Coleman v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1986
  2. Folk v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1991
  3. Thomas v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1988
  4. Hanson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1989
  5. Young v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1976

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