State v. Coleman

McCALEB, Justice.

Appellant was charged, tried and convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to serve five years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. During the trial he reserved seven bills of exceptions upon which he is relying on this appeal for a reversal of his conviction. 1

The facts of the case, insofar as pertinent to a discussion of the points presented by the bills of exceptions, are as follows: On the afternoon of August 4, 1957, Mrs. Helen Bridges Hyde was driving in an easterly direction on Highway 38 in St. Helena Parish, when her car was overtaken from the rear and passed…