Dendy v. State

Ethridge, ,T.

Appellant Bill Dendy was convicted in the County Court of Jones County of manslaughter, for the killing of Robert Maxwell Sanders by his culpable negligence in the operation of an automobile. Code of 1942, Sec. 2232. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and to serve a jail term of ninety days. Appellant first contends that he was entitled to a peremptory instruction, and alternatively, that the verdict is against the great weight of the evidence.

On November 21,1953, Robert Maxwell (Max) Sanders was riding in a 1952 Ford being driven by his son Bobby Sanders. They were on…