State v. Mangus

Maxwell, President:

This is a certified case involving an indictment which the trial court held insufficient.

The indictment charges that the defendant, in the county of Logan, “did unlawfully drive a motor vehicle upon a public highway in said county carelessly and heedlessly in wilful and wanton disregard of the rights and safety of others, without due caution and circumspection, and at a speed and in a manner so as to endanger one Calvin Messer, and did then and there strike the said Calvin Messer with said motor vehicle, against the peace and dignity of the State.”

The indictment is grounded…