State v. Thatcher

Defendant, George Alma Thatcher, was prosecuted in the District Court of Utah County on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. At the conclusion of the State's case defendant's motion for dismissal was granted and the defendant was discharged. From this judgment of dismissal the State appeals.

This case arose out of an accident which occurred on the 8th day of August, 1943, in Utah County. The defendant was driving his automobile in a southerly direction on Highway 91 within the corporate limits of Orem City when he ran into a group of pedestrians, killing two of them, a soldier by the name of…