State v. Christiansen

The defendant appeals from a conviction for willful reckless driving and operating a motor vehicle while his license had been revoked. The assignments of error relate to the admission in evidence of testimony concerning the county court testimony' of a witness now deceased.

The record shows that the defendant and Drew Larson spent a part of the evening of February 20, 1970, drinking beer and riding around in Larson’s Pontiac automobile. Later that evening they crossed the Nebraska City bridge and drove into Iowa for the purpose of drag racing.

An Iowa highway patrolman testified that on…