Ferguson v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Cleveland county of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of two years.

The evidence of the state was that defendant, on the 12th day of February, 1931, accompanied by one Dan Bentley, was driving a 1929 model Chevrolet coupe on highway No. 77, between the towns of Noble and Lexington; that defendant, in attempting to pass the car of one White, which was being driven by one Sullivan, struck the left side of…