People v. Townsend
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before judgment from Kalamazoo; Weimer (George V.), J. Glenn Townsend was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
1Opinion of the CourtWiest, J.
Defendant was convicted of the crime of involuntary manslaughter and brings the case hereupon exceptions before sentence. The evening of November 8, 1919, at the city of Kalamazoo, defendant, when intoxicated, took Agnes Thorne in his Cadillac 8 roadster and while driving on Lovers’ Lane road the automobile left the roadway and struck a tree near the fence line, caving in the side of the car, tearing off one wheel and injuring Agnes Thorne so that she died November 20, 1919. Defendant was not injured and after the crash crawled from the wrecked car and produced a bottle out of which he took a…
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