Case ID: tex-crim_107/html/0260-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, Judge. —", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

S. M. McElroy v. The State.
    No. 10982.
    Delivered June 8, 1927.
    Driving Auto While Intoxicated — New Trial — Properly Refused.
    Where appellant was convicted of driving an auto while intoxicated and moved for a new trial on the ground that at the time he went to trial he came into court in a state of absolute drunkenness, which he believed caused" the jury to inflict a severe punishment, his motion was properly overruled.
    Appeal from the District Court of Donley County. Tried below before the Hon. R. L. Templeton, Judge.
    Appeal from a conviction for driving an automobile while intoxicated, penalty one year in the penitentiary.
    The opinion states the case.
    No brief filed for appellant.
    
      Sam D. Stinson, State’s Attorney, and Robert M. Lyles, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.
   LATTIMORE, Judge. —

Conviction for driving an automobile while intoxicated, punishment one year in the penitentiary.

The record is before us without any statement of facts or bills of exception. “Appellant presented a motion for new trial, it being suggested therein that at the time he went to trial in this case he came into court in a state of absolute drunkenness, which fact was known to all of the jury which tried him, and was believed by appellant to have caused the severe penalty which was inflicted upon him. The court heard evidence on this point and overruled the motion. We perceive no error in the action of the court.

Finding no error in the record, the judgment will be affirmed.

Affirmed.