SMITH v. STATE


264 S.W.2d 803 (1954)

SMITH v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

February 11, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L.E. Gwinn and Wm. Walker Gwinn, Memphis, for defendant.

Knox Bigham, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


PREWITT, Justice.

The defendant Freeman Smith was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to eleven months and twenty-nine days in the Shelby County penal farm. The criminal prosecution resulted from an automobile wreck occurring about 1 o'clock a.m. on December 14, 1952. At the time, Mrs. May Ponds was driving her car north on Highway 51 from Memphis towards Millington at a speed of about 40 miles an hour, with her headlights on dim. At this point the...

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