White v. State

PRICE, Judge.

Appellant was by a jury found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree and his punishment fixed at six months imprisonment in the Lee County jail.

Omitting the formal parts the indictment charged that defendant “unlawfully, but without malice, or the intention to kill, killed Manuel Sharman by negligently driving an automobile, in which said Manuel Sharman was riding, in such a reckless and heedless manner that said automobile was turned over and wrecked, thereby killing said Manuel Sharman.”

The first insistence of error by appellant’s counsel is the court’s action in…