Hutto v. State

The appellant, Suzie Nell Hutto, was involved in a head-on automobile collision on April 30, 1983, in which she was the driver of one of the automobiles involved. The driver of the other automobile, a small Volkswagen passenger car, was killed in the collision and a passenger in the deceased's vehicle received minor cuts, bruises, and scrapes.

The collision occurred on the Troy Highway, a four-lane roadway, in Montgomery, Alabama, between Virginia Loop Road and the Southern Boulevard. The evidence adduced at appellant's trial revealed that she was driving in the southbound lane heading in the…