Hensley v. StateHensley v. State
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- Before:
- McCormick
OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW
McCORMICK, Presiding Judge.Appellant, Bradley Eugene Hensley, was charged with the offenses of driving while intoxicated and failing tо maintain a single marked lane. Article 6701/ -1, and Article 6701d, Section 60(a), V.A.C.S. On November 28, 1989, appellant entered a plea of guilty to the offense of failure to maintain a single marked lane and paid a fine. On November 9, 1990, appellant entered a special plea of double jeopardy to the D.W.I. charge. The trial court grаnted the special plea and the charge for the offense of driving while intoxicated was dismissed with prejudice.
Upon appeal by the State, the Beaumont Court of Appeals rеversed, and held that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar the State from proseсuting appellant for the charge of driving while intoxicated because the State need not prove the failure to drive the vehicle within а single marked lane in order to prove appellant was driving while intoxicated. State v. Hensley, 810 S.W.2d 20 (Tex.App.—Beaumont 1991, pet. granted). Since the State cоuld prosecute the charge of driving while intoxicated by establishing appellant’s blood alсohol level, the Court of Appeals determined that none of the elements of the D.W.I. offеnse as alleged in the information would depеnd on proof of any of the elements of the previously prosecuted offense. We granted appellant’s petition for discretiоnary review to determine whether the Double Jeopardy Clause 1 bars a subsequent proseсution if, to establish an essential element of an of *868 fense charged in that prosecution, the State will submit evidence of conduct that cоnstitutes an offense for which the defendant has аlready been prosecuted.
When the Court of Appeals addressed appellant’s сontentions, it did not have the benefit of this Court’s reсent opinions in State v. Houth, 845 S.W.2d 858 (Tex.Cr. App., 1992), or Parrish v. State, 851 S.W.2d 864 (Tex.Cr.App., 1993). We therefore vаcate the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand this cause for consideration in light of Houth and Parrish, both supra.
Notes
. Appellant sets forth only a United States constitutional claim, invoking the double jeopardy сlause of the Fifth Amendment as applied to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Double Jeopаrdy Clause of the Fifth Amendment states in pertinent part: “... nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb_”