Patterson v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of manslaughter under an information in two counts. Motion was made to quash the information.

The charging part of the first count of the information is as follows:

“That Andrew S. Patterson late of the County and State aforesaid on the 4th day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-five, in the County and State aforesaid, did unlawfully, by and through his own act, procurement and culpable negligence operate a certain Packard automobile in such a negligent, careless and reckless manner as to run upon and against Shirley…