People v. Bearden

The appellant challenges the legal sufficiency of evidence upon which he has been convicted of criminal negligence in the operation of an automobile.

At one-thirty in the morning of January 1, 1941, at the intersection of Skillman Avenue and 47th Street in the Borough of Queens, New York City, two passengers in a taxicab were fatally injured when the cab was overturned by "a collision with a. private automobile. The identity of the driver of the private car has never been the subject of proof by direct evidence. The defendant stands convicted, however, solely upon circumstantial evidence,…