Story v. United States

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appellant and James O’Connor were convicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia under the ninth count of an indictment charging them with involuntary manslaughter and were sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. The indictment charged that O’Connor was operating and driving an automobile, and that Story and O’Connor “feloniously, violently, wantonly, recklessly, and negligently did strike, hit, and beat him, the said Charles P. Jarvis [the deceased], with the said automobile,” etc.

The evidence for the government, stated in narrative form, is…