Jones v. State

The appellant, Allen Jones, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Smith County of the crime of manslaughter by culpable negligence in the operation of an automobile, and from- the judgment of the court sentencing him to serve a maximum term of 20 years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary he prosecutes this appeal.

The record shows that one Deavours Grissom was fatally injured on July 30, 1961, when a Ford automobile owned and operated by the .appellant, Allen Jones, collided with a Ford tractor, to which was attached a mowing device known as a bush hog, and which was…