Bounds v. State

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

OPINION

The defendant below, Royce Lavelle Bounds, appeals in error from his conviction of second degree murder with an automobile and his sentence to 15 years in the penitentiary.-

The state’s evidence showed that on August 24, 1974, at about 8:00 p. m., the defendant was proceeding south on Highway 45 By Pass in the City of Jackson; that he passed another car at 70 to 80 miles per hour and struck the walkway of a bridge on his right, then crossed the roadway and the median strip into the opposite lanes of traffic and collided with the front of the car in which Debrah…