Owen v. State

Plaintiff in error, Prince Owen, appeals from a conviction of murder in the second degree of Jarele Marie Tidwell and Mrs. Robert Elvie Hicks whose deaths *461resulted from being run into by a truck as they walked along the shoulder of Highway No. 45 in Henderson County between 11:00 and 11:30 on the night of May 10, 1947. The first question made by the assignments of error in support of his appeal is that the evidence preponderates against the verdict.

Jarele Marie Tidwell, an eight year old girl, and Mrs. Hicks, a grown young lady, were two of a party of five of the family and relatives of John…