Cody v. Commonwealth

NEIKIRK, Judge.

Appellant, William Michael Cody, was indicted for first-degree involuntary manslaughter under KRS 435.022(1), as the result of an automobile collision in Madison County. The jury returned a ver-dict of guilty of involuntary manslaughter, second degree, and fixed his punishment at twelve months in the county jail.

Appellant, a student at Eastern University, Richmond, Kentucky, twenty-four years of age, married, and living with his wife in Berea, Kentucky, left his home in the late afternoon of October 31, 1968, ostensibly to visit his parents, who lived in Tennessee. Appellant…