Threet v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Drunk driving is the offense; the punishment, ten days in jail.

On the afternoon of May 16,. 1951, a highway patrolman was called to the scene of an automobile wreck just beyond the city limits of the city of Wichita Falls. There he found that a Ford pick-up truck had overturned. As a result of information then received, he went to a hospital where he found appellant, who admitted to the witness that he was the driver of the pick-up truck that had overturned. The witness testified that appellant was drunk at the time, with a strong odor of alcohol on his breath. The jailer into…