State v. Nicholas

The information under which the defendant was tried and convicted contained four separate counts. Count I charged the defendant with manslaughter in the first degree, alleging that, while -the defendant was engaged in the commission of the misdemeanor of driving his automobile on a public highway, carelessly and heedlessly with willful and wanton disregard of the rights and safety of others and without due caution and circumspection and at a speed and in a manner so as to endanger and as to be likely to endanger persons, and property, killed Mrs. Fern Waugh. Count 2 of the information charged…