McGhee v. State

Second degree murder; sentence: ten years.

On Christmas Eve 1974, the appellant's car collided with a car driven by James Alvin Nix. The collision took place on Highway 143 in Montgomery County near the Tyler-Goodwyn Bridge. As a direct result of the collision, William Thomas Nix, a six-year-old child, was killed. William Thomas Nix was a passenger in the car driven by James Alvin Nix, his father.

The overwhelming weight of the evidence presented showed that the appellant was at fault in the collision and that the appellant was driving while intoxicated. The State presented numerous witnesses…