State v. Pendleton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

This was an action wherein the defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the fourth degree and as a persistent violator of the prohibitory laws on two counts, one for having intoxicating liquor in his possession and the other for transporting intoxicating liquor from one place to another. He appeals.

On Sunday night about 7 o’clock on September 1, 1935, the defendant was driving an automobile east on Laurel street in the city *411of Independence. Paul Ketterer and Mary Ketterer, his wife, were driving west on Laurel. When Mr. and Mrs. Ketterer…