Pratt v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The evidence for the State tends to prove that, while the defendant was driving a large, seven-passenger automobile along the public highway in Walker county, he ran said automobile against Gordon Nix, and as a result thereof the said Gordon Nix died. According to the State’s evidence, the place of the accident was in front of a schoolhouse and a church, and in a thickly populated community, and that at the time there were a number of persons walking along the road, going in- the same direction of the defendant’s car, of which fact the defendant had knowledge.

Manslaughter in…