STATE v. BROWN

No. 39824.

46 So.2d 302 (1950)

217 La. 373

STATE v. BROWN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 24, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

France W. Watts, Jr., Franklinton, for defendant-appellant.

Bolivar E. Kemp, Jr., Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jas. T. Burns, Dist. Atty., Covington, for plaintiff-appellee.


FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Jelthor Brown, in prosecuting this appeal from his conviction and sentence on a charge of negligent homicide, contends that the trial judge erred in allowing Ray E. Pope, who was one-half mile from the scene of the accident, to testify over his objection that when the accused passed him the accused was driving at a "very noticeably high rate of speed"; and also when the trial judge refused to give the special charge to the jury that "Criminal...

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