Reed v. State

Mr. Chiee Justice Green

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

Tbe defendant bas been convicted of involuntary manslaughter, given a sentence of eighteen months in tbe penitentiary, and bas appealed in error to this court.

By reason of what tbe jury regarded as defendant’s criminal negligence in tbe operation of an automobile, one E. W. Lavolle met bis death, Lavolle was billed in a head-on collision on the Knoxville and Maryville highway between his automobile and an automobile operated by the defendant.

There is not a great deal of controversy in the proof as to the manner in which the collision…