Hampton v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Appellant was convicted in the County Court at law of Wichita County of negligent homicide of the first degree, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $500.

Appellant was charged with negligent homicide, the basis for the prosecution being an affidavit and information, each containing three counts. The first count charged that appellant drove a motor vehicle at a rate of speed in excess of twenty-five miles per hour on a public highway, to-wit: a paved road between Wichita Falls and Iowa Park, and that without an apparent intention to kill and while in the performance of said…