State v. Curtis

BURNETT, Judge.

After drinking alcoholic beverages, Gregory Ryan Curtis drove an automobile upon a public highway. He collided head-on with another vehicle. The impact killed a woman passenger in the other car. Curtis now stands convicted of involuntary manslaughter. On appeal he contends that he was prosecuted under a defective statute and that the evidence of a blood alcohol test was improperly admitted at trial. We reject both contentions and affirm the judgment of conviction.

I

We turn first to Curtis’ attack upon the manslaughter statute, I.C. § 18-4006. 1 The statute, as it existed when…