State v. Irvine
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thomas F. Bell, Judge. L. F. Irvine and another were tried for manslaughter. From his conviction, Irvine appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The defendants, Irvine and Madox, were tried together for manslaughter. Madox was acquitted. Irvine *437was convicted, and was sentenced to five years at hard labor; and lie lias apxiealed.
1-Ie was foreman, and Madox was engineer, of a switch engine which between 11 and 12 o’clock at night had moved a Pullman coach to a side track at the passenger railroad depot in the city of Shreveport, and left the coach in position, and was returning to the roundhouse when it came in collision with a passenger train, whereby several persons were killed. The cause of the accident was that, instead of taking…
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