Swango v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant and defendant below, Burford Swango, was, between 5:30 and 6 o’clock P. M. of November 7, 1937, traveling east in a one-seated coupe automobile on State Highway No. 15 between Clay City in Powell county and Stanton, the county seat of the same county. In the suburbs of the latter city he collided his vehicle with Earnest Sparks, who with his wife and another lady were pedestrians traveling the highway in the same direction as was defendant, and close to the outside edge of the macadam. The collision resulted in the almost…