Court Opinion

ID: 3909114
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:38:08.577947+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:25:13.637155
License: Public Domain

The offense is driving an automobile on a street in an incorporated city while intoxicated; the punishment, a fine of $150.00 and confinement in jail for 90 days.
The recognizance is fatally defective. It is recited therein that appellant stands charged with driving an automobile while intoxicated, and that he has been convicted of the offense of driving an automobile while intoxicated. We have no statute forbidding one, in terms, from operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. In order to come within the prohibition of the statute, the accused must drive or operate such motor vehicle upon a street or alley or other place within the limits of an incorporated city, town or village, or upon a public road or highway within the State. Article 802, P. C.; Nicholson v. State, 110 Tex.Crim. Rep., 7 S.W.2d 1075; McFadden v. State, 108 Tex.Crim. Rep., 300 S.W. 54.
The appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined *Page 213 
by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.
                     ON MOTION TO REINSTATE.