Heatley v. State

The indictment charged that the accused “did unlawfully, and without any intention to do so, kill Gladys May Lilly, while accused was engaged in the commission of an unlawful act.” The evidence showed that the accused, while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, drove his car against Gladys May Lilly, a little girl seven years of age, with such force that it broke both arms and legs, crushed her through the body, and crushed her head to such an extent that her brains came out on her mother's coat sleeve; that a part of the child's hair was found on a nut that goes under the axle of the…