State v. Minor

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schroeder, J.:

This is an appeal in a criminal action from a conviction of manslaughter in the first degree.

The only question is whether the accused can be tried and convicted of first degree manslaughter without having been charged in the information with manslaughter in the first degree.

On the afternoon of August 8, 1964, Earl Lee Harris and Larry Harlin were killed by the collision of two automobiles on a bridge on Nortli Tenth Street in Kansas City, Kansas. Melvin Minor was charged as the driver of one of these vehicles with two counts of…