Potter v. State

This appeal is from a conviction of involuntary manslaughter, with a sentence of a year and a day in the State Prison, under an indictment charging operation of a truck on the State Highway, without due caution and circumspection, at ap speed and in a manner so as to endanger person and property, resulting in the death of Dorothy Bayne. Assignments of error challenge the verdict of the jury as against the preponderance of the evidence and the charge of the Court as failing to make clear to the jury the distinction between negligence which affords ground for civil liability and that negligence…