Commonwealth v. Holman

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

The only question involved in this appeal from a jury conviction of involuntary manslaughter is the sufficiency of the commonwealth’s evidence to sustain the conviction.

On June 28, 1946, about 7:30 p.m., Daylight Saving Time, on a clear day, the defendant was operating his automobile south on Tenth Street, a one-way street, in Philadelphia, approaching Buttonwood Street, when at a point 15 or 20 feet north of Buttonwood Street the automobile struck and killed a five-year-old girl, who was crossing Tenth Street from the west to the east side and at the time she was struck…