State v. Custer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

Defendant appeals from conviction of manslaughter in the fourth degree on an information charging that while he was driving an automobile on a public highway at an unlawful rate of speed and in a culpably negligent manner his automobile struck and killed a man. The principal question is whether the court properly instructed the jury.

*382The accident occurred on a graveled highway leading north from the end of the pavement on Kansas avenue in Liberal. A quarter of a mile north of the end of the pavement is a crossroad. C. 0. Cohenour left Liberal…