MEEKS v. STATE


64 So.2d 290 (1953)

MEEKS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Florida, Special Division A.

April 14, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Robert Eagan, Orlando, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Reeves Bowen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


TERRELL, Justice.

Appellant was tried in the Criminal Court of Record, Orange County, and convicted of manslaughter. He was adjudicated to be guilty and sentenced to hard labor in the State Penitentiary for five years. He has appealed from that judgment.

He contends that there was no evidence showing the cause of the accident or that he was guilty of culpable negligence justifying a conviction of manslaughter.

The salient facts were these: Appellant...

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