Johnson v. State

Bruñe, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by William Henry Johnson, appellant-defendant, from his conviction and sentence in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on the charge of manslaughter by automobile of one Junior Betson.

The case arose out of an accident that occurred on Sunday, March 4, 1956, at about 1:50 A. M. on William Street, which is a one-way four-lane northbound highway leading from Key Highway into an extension of Calvert Street, in the City of Baltimore. Going from Key Highway towards Calvert Street there is first a sharp, right angle curve north onto…