State v. McDaniel

McCRODDEN, Judge.

Defendants present four arguments for review by this Court. Because one of these arguments compels us to reverse the judgment of the trial court, we need not address the other three. The argument in which we find merit is defendants’ contention that there was insufficient evidence that they acted in an unlawful or criminally negligent manner, alternative elements of involuntary manslaughter, and that the trial court, therefore, erred in denying their motions to dismiss the charges.

At trial the State’s evidence tended to show that on 16 July 1988, Mark Hibbard was driving…