Nixon v. State

COLEMAN, Justice.

Appellant, defendant below, was indicted for and convicted of murder in the second degree for homicide caused by an automobile operated by defendant on a public highway in Shelby County. He was sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Three school children were killed. They had alighted from a school bus shortly before the accident. The bus was traveling in the direction opposite to the direction in which defendant was driving the automobile. The children, after getting out of the bus, had crossed the highway and were walking along the shoulder of the…