Hobbs v. State

The defendant, Joseph C. Hobbs, plaintiff in error here, was found guilty ''upon a charge of manslaughter. To the judgment imposing sentence writ of error was taken from this court.

The charge contained in the information is that the defendant, on March 21, 1921, while in an intoxicated condition, by his culpable negligence in operating an automobile at a great and unlawful rate of speed upon the public street of the City of Jacksonville, and in colliding with and striking the deceased, who was then upon such street, inflicted divers wounds upon him, producing his death.

The assignments of…