Garza v. State

On May 14, 2016, while driving his vehicle Sergio Garza hit a motorcycle. Joe Payte, the driver of the motorcycle, suffered serious injuries,1 and the passenger, Charlene Payte, Joe's wife, died as a result of the injuries she sustained in the accident. Garza was convicted by a Montgomery County jury of the offenses of leaving the scene of an accident involving death or personal injury, battery in the first degree, and negligent homicide. He was sentenced to six years in prison for leaving the scene of an accident, and twenty years each for the battery-in-the-first-degree and…