Jones v. State

The appellant, Sam Jones, was indicted by the grand jury at the November 1962 Term of the Circuit Court of Adams County, for the crime of manslaughter in the felonious killing of Barbara Ann Moore by culpable negligence. The case was transferred from the circuit court to the county court, where the appellant was tried and found guilty as charged and was sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of three years.

The record shows that on November 8, 1962, between 5:30 and 6:00 P.M. Mrs. Barbara Ann Moore, 20 years of age, was killed in an automobile accident in the northern…