State v. Arnold

Layton, Chief Justice,

charged the jury, in part, as follows:

George Arnold, the defendant is charged in the indictment before you with the crime of involuntary manslaughter as a result of the death by drowning in the Delaware Bay of one John Fritz, on July 11, 1941.

The State has offered evidence tending to show that on that day about 7:45 in the morning, the defendant was the Captain of and in personal charge of a tugboat having in tow a barge proceeding in a southerly direction down the Bay to Milford, Delaware; that the length of the towing hawser was about two hundred feet; that at the time…