Hiller v. State

This was a conviction of involuntary manslaughter with a 'jail sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days. In a collision between the Chevrolet car of plaintiff in error and the Ford car of J. W. Jonakin, the infant child of Mr. Jonakin and Mrs. Jonakin, being carried in the arms of the mother at the time, met its death. The unfortunate tragic result of the collision naturally tends to render more passionate human judgment in weighing the conduct of -the accused.

It must be borne in mind, as said by this Court, in Copeland v. State, 154 Tenn., 11, in disposing of a charge of criminal…