State v. Bethards

Defendant was charged with, tried for, and convicted of a minor traffic violation, but under the statutes he is compelled to come to this court for a review.

The facts as they appear from the municipal court records, which have been certified to us, and from the abstract, are in substance as follows: Defendant, whu lives at 1920 East Twenty-seventh Street in Des Moines, on the morning of August 26, 1947, drove his car south on East Thirtieth Street. His wife was with him. As he approached Grand Avenue, something went wrong with the car and he drove over against the west curbing and the car…