State v. Askin

Defendant was found guilty of manslaughter and has appealed from the judgment entered on the verdict, and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The offense was alleged to have been committed on February 11, 1930. The defendant at that time was seventeen years of age, and the deceased, Charles E. Havens, of the age of sixty-two years. The record discloses that defendant, his brother, Bob Askin, and Wesley Striker, on the evening of February 11, were traveling south in a sedan on the road from Baker to Ekalaka, and the car ran partly off the road about nine miles north of Ekalaka,…