State v. McDaniels

An information filed by the prosecuting attorney for King county charged the defendant with the commission of the crime of negligent homicide by means of a motor vehicle. Trial before a jury resulted in a verdict of guilty. Thereafter, the trial court entered an order granting defendant’s motion in arrest of judgment and dismissing the action, on the ground that there was no evidence or proof of negligence on the part of defendant which was the proximate cause of the decedent’s death, and on the further ground that the proof showed that the deceased came to her death solely and proximately as…