State v. Bowman

This is an appeal from a judgment and sentence based on a verdict of guilty of the crime of negligent homicide by means of a motor vehicle, as defined by RCW 46.56.040.

The defendant was represented by two court-appointed counsel. The defense rested at the close of the prosecution’s case. Therefore, the only evidence in the case was that presented by the state.. The substance of the evidence before the jury may be briefly stated as follows:

On the day of December 27, 1958, the defendant (appellant James Leland Bowman), aged twenty-one at the time, borrowed from his brother an automobile…