Tello v. State
By Third District, at Austin Texas Court of Appeals
- Release Date: 2005-12-07
- Genre: Law
Description
Appellant was towing some dirt in a homemade trailer when the trailer unhitched from appellants truck, and struck and killed a pedestrian. As a result of this incident, a jury convicted appellant of criminally negligent homicide as charged in an indictment alleging that appellant caused the victims death by "failing to properly secure a trailer to his truck." See Tex. Pen. Code, § 19.05(a).