State v. Smaage

MARING, Justice.

Selmer Allen Smaage appeals a criminal judgment entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of negligent homicide. We affirm.

On December 9,1993, Smaage was driving with his father on a rural Nelson County road. The day was snowy and windy. Smaage attempted to make a left turn onto a side road. He waited for a delivery truck to clear the opposite lane, and turned after it had passed. A pickup truck that had been following the delivery truck hit the passenger side of Smaage’s vehicle. Smaage’s father was killed in the collision.

Highway patrol officer Delbert Johnston spoke…