State v. Boyle

Mitchell, J.-

At 10:45 p. m. on the night of March 18, 1940, patrolmen M. G. Swords and Harold Parr were cruising on highway No. 30 a few miles east of Cedar Rapids when they noticed a car in the ditch on the south side of the road headed.east. The car was considerably off the highway. The wheels were turned cramped toward the road; The lights were still on the car and someone was attempting to get out of the right door. The patrolmen were traveling between 40 and 45 miles an hour when they first noticed the ditched automobile. They drove 50 feet beyond it, then backed up. At that time, the…