People v. Darragh
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William Darragh, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the county of New York, rendered on the 4th day of June, 1909, convicting the defendant of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The appellant was a chauffeur. His employer had purchased a new sixty-horse-power car about -the 1st of March, 1909. This car had made sixty-five miles an hour and the appellant had, according to his own testimony, driven it at the rate of sixty miles an hour the day before the occurrence here under consideration.
In the early evening of Saturday, March twenty-seventh, the appellant took the car, which at that time was equipped with only two racing seats, the body having been taken off and left at the garage, and started out to test it, to try out the car on some hill, as he wanted…
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