STATE v. LEDFORD

No. 7024SC570.

178 S.E.2d 235 (1971)

10 N.C. App. 315

STATE of North Carolina v. Donald Howard LEDFORD.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

January 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., and Walter E. Ricks, III, Staff Attorney, Raleigh, for the State.

Mashburn & Huff, by Joseph B. Huff, Marshall, for defendant appellant.


HEDRICK, Judge.

The defendant's assignment of error number 10, based on exception number 26, presents for review the question of the sufficiency of all the evidence to go to the jury on the charge of involuntary manslaughter.

The principles of law upon which criminal responsibility is determined in automobile accident cases were aptly stated by Stacy, C. J., in State v. Cope, 204 N.C. 28, 167 S.E. 456 (1933):

"4. Culpable negligence in the law of...

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