Case Name: SCOGGINS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1924-11-19
Citations: 266 S.W. 513
Docket Number: No. 8400
Parties: SCOGGINS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 266
Pages: 513–514

Head Matter:
SCOGGINS v. STATE.
(No. 8400.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 19, 1924.
Rehearing Denied Dec. 17, 1924.)
On Motion for Rehearing.
Highways <§=>186 — Failure to define “intoxicated” in prosecution for driving automobile while intoxicated held not reversible error; “drunk.”
Court’s failure to define “intoxicated,” in prosecution for driving automobile while intoxicated, held not reversible error, under Vernon’s Ann. Code Or. Proc. 1916, art. 743, in view of undisputed evidence that defendant was “drunk,” which, as commonly understood,' means result of excessive drinking, a state of intoxication depriving one of normal control of bodily and mental faculties.
[Ed. Note. — For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, First and Second Series, Drunk.]
Appeal irom Criminal District Court, Dallas County; C. A. Pippen, Judge.
V. P. Scoggins was convicted of driving an automobile while intoxicated, and appeals.
Affirmed.
Hughes & Monroe, of Dallas, for appellant.
Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, P. J.
The offense is driving an automobile while intoxicated; punishment fixed at a fine of $1 and confinement in the county jail for a period of 90 days.
The attack upon the indictment and the statute upon which the prosecution is founded is not unlike that passed on by this court in Nelson v. State, 261 S. W. 1046, in which both the law and the indictment were held valid.
The evidence was all one way to the effect that the appellant was drunk and was staggering. Under these circumstances the omission of the definition of the term "intoxicated" is not deemed error requiring a reversal.
Finding no error, the judgment is .affirmed.
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