Bennett v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing the appellant to nine months’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary upon a conviction of involuntary manslaughter. The testimony for the State tended to prove that on the 15th day of December, 1922, about three o’clock p. m., the appellant was operating and in control of an automobile on the public highway in Arkansas County; that he was drunk,-and, while running the car at a speed of from twenty-five to thirty-five miles an hour, he came in contact with one Ed Miller, who was driving his team hitched to a wagon loaded with rice. Miller at the…