Bates v. People

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice McWilliams.

Trial by jury resulted in a verdict adjudging Bates guilty of the crime of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of Utecht, his death resulting from a two-car automobile collision in the intersection *88of West Mississippi Avenue and South Santa Fe Drive in Denver. Bates was sentenced to a term in the county jail and by the present writ of error he seeks reversal of the judgment and sentence.

Bates’ main argument here is that there is “not one scintilla of evidence . . . indicating or even tending to indicate that the defendant recklessly and…