Holmes v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for manslaughter and convicted in Palm Beach County, October, 1923.

' The indictment alleged that the defendant in June, 1922, drove an automobile with culpable negligence and with disregard for the life and safety of Maude Ansley Lawrence at a high rate of speed in a negligent, careless and reckless' manner against her which inflicted bruises and wounds upon her head and body from which she died the following-day.

Writ of error was taken from this court to the judgment of conviction. The motion for new trial was not made “within four days after the verdict,”…