State v. Roberts

These two cases, tried together, are brought to the Court on exceptions by the respondents to the denial of *274motions for directed verdicts and the refusal of the Justice below to give three requested instructions. The issue presented is well stated in respondents’ brief, as follows:

“Is one who sits behind the steering wheel of an automobile with the motor running and the car in gear and the rear wheels spinning and slewing slightly from side to side, while the front end of the motor vehicle is suspended in the air five or six inches so that the turning of the steering wheel cannot control the…