People v. Mead

Appellant was charged with the crime of manslaughter as defined in section 192 of the Penal Code, it being alleged in the information that “on or about the 21st day of June, 1953, in the County of Mendocino, State of California, said defendant did then and there, unlawfully, feloniously and without malice, kill two human beings, to wit, Vernon Newbury and Evelyn Laura Cass Newbury, in the driving of a vehicle in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to felony with gross negligence. ’ ’ He was found guilty by the jury of the offense charged “without gross negligence, ’ ’ his motion…