State v. Burchett

STORCKMAN, Judge.

The defendant, Charles Albert Burchett, was charged by information in the Circuit Court of Nodaway County with the crime of manslaughter growing out of an automobile accident. On change of venue the case was transferred to Andrew County where the defendant was convicted by a jury and his punishment assessed at nine years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled, and he appealed.

The state’s evidence tended to show that on November 7, 1954, at about 2:30 a. m., the defendant was driving a one-half ton Ford V-8 pickup truck north on…