State v. Lewis

OPINION

By the Court,

McKnight, District Judge:

Appellant was convicted of the crime of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to six months in the county jail. This appeal is from the judgment and from the order denying a new trial.

Briefly stated, the facts are as follows: About nine o’clock on Christmas eve, December 24, 1937, Thomas Edward Stevenson, a large man, over six feet tall and weighing approximately 200 pounds, left the Grace Community Church on Wyoming street, in Boulder City, Nevada, of which he was pastor, carrying two buckets, one containing chili and the other cocoa, and started…