Martinez v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is failing to stop and render aid; thé punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for one year and one day.

About 5 p. m. on the 28th of February, 1938, Jesusa San Miguel and Carlos Carasco were walking on a bridge in the town of Eagle Pass when appellant approached them from the opposite direction in a truck. The bridge was about fifteen feet wide. Jesusa and her companion were walking close to the rail, leaving ample room for the truck to have passed them. Instead of holding his truck to the right, appellant drove “on the left hand side of the bridge in the…