Commonwealth v. Root

Opinion by

Woodside, J.;

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence imposed upon the defendant after his conviction by a jury on the charge of involuntary manslaughter. He contends here, as in the court below, that judgment should be arrested, or in lieu thereof, a new trial should be granted.

Except for relatively unimportant details there is no serious conflict in the evidence. The jury would be justified in finding the following facts: After 1 o’clock in the morning of May 25, 1957, Leroy W. Boot, the defendant, Lewis Hall, who was killed in an automobile accident later that morning, and…