State v. Voelpel

I. On the 6th day of December, 1927, the appellant, accompanied by a woman companion, was driving an automobile in an easterly direction upon the Lincoln Highway in Clinton County. He overtook an automobile traveling in the same direction, in which one Mrs. L. P. Daniels was riding, and collided with said car, striking it in the rear, with the result that the Daniels car was thrown into the ditch, and injuries were inflicted upon Mrs. Daniels from which she died. The State charged that the appellant was guilty of gross negligence in the operation of his car, that he was driving the same at an…