State v. Studebaker

The defendant appeals from a conviction of manslaughter in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, his punishment being 'assessed by a jury at four years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The’specific charge was that he “feloniously, carelessly, recklessly and with culpable negligence” drove his automobile with great force and violence against one Miss Helen Griffith, as she was standing in a safety zone’ at Twenty-seventh and Main Streets in Kansas City on the evening of November 11, 1931, about six p. m. waiting to board a street car, thereby killing her. The assignments in the defendant’s…