State v. Wickstrom

The defendant-appellant raises three issues: (1) Should the trial court have granted his motion to dismiss at the end of plaintiffs case; (2) does the record support the verdict; and (3) should the trial court have granted a new trial?

Briefly, the evidence showed that about 1 p. m. on Sunday, July 27, 1958, the defendant, while driving his car on U. S. Highway 2 about three miles west of the city of Ashland, suddenly swerved to his left and struck the oncoming car of Walter Warner in the north lane of the highway. Warner died as a result of the collision. The defendant, who was thirty-three…