Carolina v. McCall

MARTIN, Judge.

Defendant first contends the court erred in allowing testimony as to the speed of defendant’s automobile and the conclusion that defendant was “about to lose control.”

Virginia Cobb Cowart, a passenger in defendant’s car, testified as follows:

“He mashed the accelerator and passed Tommy, and I slid over to the side and I could see that the speedometer was past a hundred. I couldn’t see if it was to a hundred and ten, or a hundred and twenty, or what; but I could only see half of the red needle, and I could tell that he was about to lose control.”

Defendant contends that the…