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Tenaha man pleads guilty to intoxicated driving death

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CARTHAGE, Texas (KLTV) - A Tenaha man arrested in connection with a fatal car crash in 2022 has pleaded guilty. Mitchell V. Williams entered the plea in Panola County District Judge LeAnn Kay Rafferty's court on Tuesday Williams was arrested on June 12, 2022 and charged with intoxicated manslaughter with a vehicle. The crash happened on Feb. 27, 2022, Williams was driving at an unsafe speed on FM 2517, about 10 miles southeast of Carthage, and hydroplaned and spun into a ditch, striking a tree with the right passenger side.