Vasque v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is negligent homicide of the second degree; the punishment, confinement in jail for six months.

Deceased, Antonio Trujillo, was a laborer engaged in digging a ditch in a street in the city of El Paso. The point where deceased was at work was a few feet out from the curb, and the excavation made was about five inches below the surface of the street. It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant struck deceased with a truck while he (appellant) was driving said truck at a rate of speed in excess of twenty miles per hour. In support of the allegation…