State v. Peterson

Defendant was tried upon an indictment charging manslaughter in the second degree. A verdict of guilty as charged was rendered. He appeals from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

Shortly before 8 o’clock in the evening of September 10, 1921, defendant drove an automobile at great speed against Mads Hansen, who was walking, inflicting injuries from which death almost immediately resulted. Defendant was driving a heavy and powerful car down a winding hill towards the southerly bridge which crosses the Des Moines river in the city of Jackson. Hansen’s hearing wals somewhat impaired,…