State v. Harrell

PONDER, Justice.

The defendant has .appealed from a conviction of negligently killing one John Keen and from a sentence thereunder of one year in the state penitentiary.

Although the defendant is relying on four bills of exception, we think the most important bill is the one taken to the overruling of a motion for a new trial based on the ground that there is no evidence of criminal negligence in the record to support the conviction.

*37The record' shows that the defendant, a boy of 17, struck and killed a seven year old boy while driving along the highway to Winnfield. The defendant had been sent…