DELAWDER v. COMMONWEALTH


196 S.E.2d 913 (1973)

214 Va. 55

Lloyd Wayne DELAWDER v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 11, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence H. Hoover, Jr., Harrisonburg (Hoover & Hoover, Harrisonburg, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

A. R. Woodroof, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN and POFF, JJ.


CARRICO, Justice.

The defendant, Lloyd Wayne Delawder, was convicted by a jury of involuntary manslaughter in the highway traffic death of a pedestrian, Earl Everett Mason. The trial court approved the verdict and sentenced the defendant to serve six months in jail and to pay a fine of $1000, as fixed by the jury. We granted the defendant a writ of error which poses two questions, name-namely:

1. Did the evidence present a jury question whether the gross negligence...

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