State v. Melton

Defendant was convicted of manslaughter as the result of his alleged culpable negligence, was fined five hundred dollars and has appealed. He has brought up the record of the proceedings and all the evidence, but has not favored us with a brief.

One assignment of error in the motion for new trial is that the trial court erred in submitting the case to the jury. This calls for a brief statement of the facts. A Ford automobile, driven by defendant, struck and fatally injured Mrs. Bertie Hilton in the village of Spokane, in Christian County, on the night of October 19, 1928. Her death occurred…