State v. Gesas

The defendant was convicted of the crime of involuntary manslaughter and appeals. The information reads as follows:

“That said Jesse Gesas, at the county of Salt Lake, in the state of Utah, on the 13th day of November, A. D. 1915, being then and there engaged in the commissions of a lawful act which might produce death, to wit, operating a motor vehicle, did then and there operate said motor vehicle upon a public street, to wit, upon Fifth East street at the intersection of Fifth East street and Seventh South street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, at a speed greater than was then and…