Curtis v. State

OPINION

Opinion by Chief Justice MORRISS.

One night, not long after midnight, Kyle David Curtis was driving in Paris, Texas, on the southeast loop, a four-lane divided highway, when two state troopers observed his vehicle weave twice across “the inside fog line” and then once “across the broken lane divider line and back,” all in the space of “about several hundred yards as opposed to, let’s say, a quarter mile or so.” 1 The officers stopped Curtis and arrested him for driving while intoxicated (D.W.I.).

A jury convicted Curtis and assessed punishment at ninety days in the county jail and a fine…