State v. Rullestad

Defendant was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, committed while operating his motor vehicle while intoxicated. He appeals, urging for reversal the instructions bearing on proximate cause were misleading and confusing and that a statement made by him to an investigating highway patrolman was inadmissible under section 321.271, ■ Code, 1962, which provides in part, “the written report shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting.”

The tragic accident occurred about 7 p.m. October 28, 1964. The decedent was driving west on Garden Road in Story County toward Highway 69. On…