State v. Brandle

HIGGINS, Justice.

The defendant was charged in a bill of information with having violated the provisions of Act No. 64 of the Legislature of Louisiana of 1930, by operating a motor vehicle in a grossly negligent and reckless manner and wantonly causing the death of one William Egan. The offense was alleged to have been committed on September 30, 1936, at 12 o’clock noon, at the -corner of Julia and So. Rampart, streets, this city, when the defendant is said to have failed to stop his motortruck in obedience to the traffic sign of the police department of the city and knocked down the deceased,…