People v. Harrigan
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to recorder’s court of Detroit; Heston (William M.), J. John Harrigan was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than 5 nor more than 15 years in the State prison at Jackson.
1Opinion of the CourtWiest, J.
Defendant was convicted of the crime of involuntary manslaughter, and brings the case here by writ of error. It is claimed by the prosecution that, on the 25th day of February, 1921, several workmen were repairing a street railway track on Fourteenth avenue in the city of Detroit, working near the center of the street, a little over 100 feet north of a viaduct, when the defendant, driving his automobile north on the street, in broad daylight, at a speed of upwards of 30 miles an hour, ran into the workmen and knocked them down like “nine pins,” killed one and, without lessening his pace,…
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