Mauldin v. State

The appellant Mauldin was convicted by a jury of manslaughter by automobile after he drove his car at terrific speed—well over eighty miles an hour—on the Jones Falls Expressway into the rear of another car and caused the death of a woman passenger in the car that was struck. He makes only one contention of error, a claim that he did not freely and voluntarily consent to take the “chemical test for intoxication” provided for by Code (1964 Supp.), Art. 35, Sec. 100, because he was so intoxicated as to be incapable of giving consent and that, therefore, the results of the test which showed him…