Wells v. State

The appellant, Blob Wells, was indicted and convicted on a charge of manslaughter and sentenced to the state penitentiary for a term of ten years. The case rests upon a charge and evidence of culpable negligence in the driving of an automobile at an excessive rate of speed in violation of the law of the road.

On Sunday afternoon, the twenty-fifth day. of May, 1931, the appellant, accompanied by a young lady, was driving a Dodge coupe on the highway between the towns of Newton and Decatur, Miss. This highway runs north and south, and at a point at or near the south end of a curve the…