Spinks’ Intoxication Manslaughter Trial

SULPHUR SPRINGS — Testimony continues in the intoxication manslaughter trial of James Blake Spinks, 25, of Yantis in Sulphur Springs. He is charged with hitting Nathan Spataro, 21, who was found dead along side Interstate Highway 30 Service Road in June of last year. Spinks, who had spent the prior afternoon and evening drinking, thought he had hit a deer. Authorities were not called until several hours after the incident, and then by a man at a business who Spinks told he thought he had hit something and needed a place to hide out.