People v. McCollough

One count of an indictment returned against the defendant, Horace H. McCoIIough, charged him with involuntary manslaughter; the other charged him with reckless homicide. Both counts recited in identical language that the defendant did “recklessly with a willful and wanton disregard for the safety of *** a five-year-old child, increase the speed of the motor vehicle he was driving *** and failed to exercise due caution to avoid colliding with said child upon the roadway *** and did *** kill [the child] without lawful justification in violation of the Criminal Code of 1961, as amended, Section…