State v. Gurley

Paul Lee Woody died as a result of injuries sustained when an automobile overturned on a public highway. The State’s evidence is to the effect that defendant asked Samuel Martin if he wanted to race automobiles on a public highway, that Martin replied he did not, and thereafter while driving his automobile on a public highway at a speed of about 65 or 70 miles an hour, defendant driving his automobile passed him, and after passing cut back and forth across the highway, hit a culvert, and overturned throwing Woody and. defendant out of the automobile. Defendant’s evidence is to the effect that…