State v. Knoke

Defendant appeals from conviction of criminally negligent homicide, ORS 163.145, a lesser included offense of manslaughter, ORS 163.125, which was charged in the indictment.

The homicide occurred at a parking lot in Kla-math Falls shortly before midnight on June 15, 1972. The deceased and two young ladies were sitting in a parked automobile, the ladies in the front seat and deceased in the rear seat, and a witness was crouched at a front window talking with the car’s occupants *189when the defendant drove np in another vehicle, got ont of it and approaehd the vehicle in which deceased was sitting.…