Holmes v. State

CATES, Judge.

Holmes has appealed from a conviction of involuntary manslaughter carrying' a twelve months’ jail sentence.

The homicide charged was the killings .of Doyle Wayne Wright and his two and a half year old daughter, Donna Faye,, in a collision between automobiles driven, by Wright and by Holmes.

The wreck occurred about nine o’clock on the night of November 8, 1957, at a point on the Talladega-Sylacauga road somewhat north from the Alpine turn off-Holmes was traveling south going from Talladega toward Sylacauga. Wright was-headed north.

There were only two eye witnesses, Holmes and Mr.…