State v. Minor

HAMITER, Justice.

Robert Minor, the defendant herein, was convicted of negligent homicide, an offense defined in LRS 14:32 as “the killing of a human being by criminal negligence”. The charge forming the basis of the conviction arose out of the death of one Delois Hoover which resulted from a collision, on U. S. Highway 51 approximately six miles south of Ponchatoula in Tangipahoa Parish during the afternoon of August 3, 1958, between a Willys station wagon in which she was riding and a Mercury automobile driven by Minor.

After having been sentenced to serve two years at hard labor in the state…