Case Name: Janies Emmet TRAMMELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1956-02-01
Citations: 287 S.W.2d 487
Docket Number: No. 27864
Parties: Janies Emmet TRAMMELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 287
Pages: 487–489

Head Matter:
Janies Emmet TRAMMELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 27864.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 1, 1956.
Tom Howard, Dallas, for appellant.
Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Charles S. Potts, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORRISON, Presiding Judge.
The offense is driving while intoxicated; the. punishment, ten days in jail and a fine of $200.
Officer Curtis testified that he investigated a collision and sent the appellant to the 'hospital in an ambulance, that he proceeded to the hospital and there saw a doctor take a sample of blood from the appellant's arm. When the State called Dr. Mason, the toxicologist, the appellant objected to his testimony as to the results of the blood test on the grounds that the State had failed to prove that the sample of blood was taken with the appellant's consent. The objection was overruled, and we have concluded that the trial court erred in so ruling. The appellant testified that he was unconscious when he arrived at the hospital, and there is nothing in the record to refute such testimony.
In Brown v. State, 156 Tex.Cr.R. 144, 240 S.W.2d 310, 311, we said:
"When so taken by competent and trained nurses, doctors or laboratory technicians with the consent of one whose 'State of sobriety is questioned, the results of the test thereof may' be shown by the state or by the accused. Consent being shown, the provisions of the 5th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and Art. I, Sec. 10 of the Constitution of Texas, Vernon's Ann.St.Const., providing that no person shall be compelled to give evidence against himself, are-not violated in the taking of blood for analysis, and the proof of the result of the test."
The State having failed to show that the specimen was taken with the consent of the appellant, the testimony of Dr. Máson was not admissible.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.