Smith v. State

Jack Smith, a young man about 21 years of age, was indicted and convicted for involuntary manslaughter with his punishment fixed at not more than 2 years confinement in the penitentiary. This case presents another one of those unfortunate involuntary manslaughter cases growing out of the driving of an automobile.

On Christmas Day of 1954, Smith, while on the way to pick up his mother struck and killed a six-year-old child in the Town of Cleveland. The child seems to have been playing on a bridge, leading to the Big Springs School, with another child and not upon a public highway. One of the…