Phillips v. State

Appellant was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and given a sentence of one year in the penitentiary, from which judgment is this appeal.

Appellant was jointly indicted with three other persons who were occupants of a car which he was driving at the time the homicide was committed; but at the conclusion of the introduction of the testimony the case was dismissed as to all the defendants except appellant.

The indictment alleged that the occupants of the car “did unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully, culpably and negligently; without due caution, care and circumspection, drive his car into…