People v. Gibson

The defendant Wayne Gibson was indicted for the offense of involuntary manslaughter in that on April 29, 1974,

* * * he did knowingly and without lawful justification kill Tracy Fink by recklessly driving a car at a high rate of speed and in the wrong lane of traffic and off the public roadway, such action being of a nature likely to cause death or great bodily harm to some individual * °

The provisions of the Criminal Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 9 — 3) defined involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide as follows:

“(a) A person who kills an individual without lawful…