Meade v. Commonwealth

On the evening of Sunday, February 4, 1940, as dark was setting in, an automobile on a public highway in Scott county, leading from Moccasin Gap to Bristol by way of Hiltons, struck and killed Mrs. Martha Hyatt Prigon. With her, walking in single file, in this order were the husband, Mrs. Prigon and Miss May Rimer. Mrs. Prigon carried a flashlight and was on the road shoulder about three feet to her right from its paved *813surface. About weather conditions witnesses differ, as witnesses will. One said that it was snowing “just a little” or “kinda medium;” another said that it “commenced snowing…