State v. Riddle

WOLFE, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment of the sixth district court convicting defendant of involuntary manslaughter.

The facts out of which this case arises are largely without dispute, and are substantially as follows:

At about midnight, on the evening of July 7, 1945, the defendant was driving his Dodge truck northerly along highway No. 89 at 25 to 30 miles per hour. At Central, Utah, where the road curved rather sharply, defendant’s truck collided with an automobile being driven southerly along the same highway by one Gerald Wells. Marion Wilcock, a passenger in the Wells automobile, was…