Case Name: J. A. Glossup v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1936-12-16
Citations: 131 Tex. Crim. 645
Docket Number: No. 18574
Parties: J. A. Glossup v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 131
Pages: 645–647

Head Matter:
J. A. Glossup v. The State.
No. 18574.
Delivered December 16, 1936.
Rehearing Denied February 10, 1937.
The opinion states the case.
George W. Edwards, of San Marcos, and Cotten & Johnston, of Palestine, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
— Conviction for murder; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.
It is charged in the indictment that appellant was operating an automobile upon a public highway of this State while intoxicated, and that he did by accident and mistake collide with another car, causing the death of Louise Smith.
We have gone over the bills of exceptions contained in the record, and find nothing in any of them seeming to call for any discussion. None of same manifests any error. The-facts are such as to furnish a sad commentary upon the question of drunkenness upon public highways. Without any controversy at all they demonstrate that appellant was driving an automobile upon a highway between San Marcos and Seguin, at a point in Hays County, both he and the man in the car with him being intoxicated, and that they met a car containing Miss Louise Smith and her friend Mr. Conley; Miss Smith said before she died that they saw the car driven by appellant coming on the highway wabbling from side to side, and that they pulled as far off the pavement as possible, but appellant's car drove into them. Appellant's companion Daily was killed, as was also both Miss Smith and Mr. Conley. Further than this recital of the facts there appears no need for discussing them in any way.
The judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.