Siler v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

George Siler was a deputy- sheriff and Lewis Bailey a constable of Whitley County. They appeal from a conviction of manslaughter, with the penalty of eight years’ imprisonment for the death of William Phillips as the result of the officers causing the wreck of an automobile he was driving.

On the afternoon of November 20,. 1938, the officers, at the side of the road, noticed an automobile coming up United States Highway No. 25-W zigzagging back and forth across the road. There was much travel that Sunday afternoon. Believing the driver to…