State v. Brehmer

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment convicting defendant of criminal negligence resulting in death.

At about 10 p. m. on September 3, 1965, Raymond Umberger, an over-the-road truckdriver, was driving a semitractor south on Carimona Street in Winona, Minnesota. He brought the tractor to a stop at the intersection of Carimona and Third Street with the front wheels even with the Third Street curb. Nothing was coming from his right. Looking to his left, he saw a car about a block and a quarter away proceeding west on Third Street. No other cars were approaching from his left. He…