Briggs v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Harris County of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

Two officers were watching appellant’s house in Houston on information of traffic in intoxicating liquor. Appellant was arrested while in the act of leaving the premises. The officers wanted to search his ear in the street, but for the purpose of this case he was unwilling for them to do so and ran the car back into his own yard where quite a scuffle ensued, ending for the time being by appellant getting away from the officers,…