People v. Ortiz Morales

Appellant was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter under an information charging that on a certain occasion he operated a motor vehicle with such negligence, carelessness, and lack of circumspection, at excessive speed, without taking into consideration the conditions and width of the road, that he ran over Luis Tomás Arce with said vehicle. The accident occurred about 1:3Q p.m. of October 29, 1959 and Arce died about three hours later. A motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence was denied. On appeal, he assigns as errors committed by the trial court: (1) the refusal to…