State v. McNichols

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schroeder, J.:

This is a criminal action in which the defendant was charged with manslaughter in the fourth degree. (G. S. 1949, 21-420.) The information alleged in substance that the defendant drove his automobile into an intersection without first stopping at the stop sign controlling his entrance thereto, thus causing a collision with another vehicle entering the intersection from a different direction, killing two children who were passengers in the defendant’s vehicle as a result thereof.

Trial was had before a jury which returned a verdict of…