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160 Fla. 153

33 So.2d 728

Laster v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided February 13, 1948

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1948-02-13

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 1954

3 state decisions

Relies on Bessie Cannon v. State of Florida · Franklin v. State · Ehrans v. Miami Transit Company

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Decided 1948-02-13

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¶1Appellant was convicted under an information charging him with the commission of the crime of manslaughter by means of the unlawful and culpable negligence in the driving of an automobile.

¶2From judgment of conviction he has perfected his appeal.

¶3The record shows that while appellant was lawfully driving along a paved highway a little girl, who with her parents had alighted from another automobile for the purpose of gathering wild flowers, suddenly attempted to run across the highway (from the side where her father was with her to the other side where her mother was gathering flowers) immediately in front of the on-coming automobile driven by appellant and was struck and killed by such automobile.

¶4The evidence fails to show that appellant in the driving of the automobile was guilty of driving same in an unlawful manner or that he was then and there guilty of culpable negligence as defined by us in Cannon v. State, 91 Fla. 214, *154107 So. 360, 361. See also Franklin v. State, 120 Fla. 686,163 So. 55; Pitts v. State, 134 Fla. 626, 184 So. 646; Ehrens v. Miami Transit Co., 155 Fla. 394, 20 So.2d 261.

¶5It, therefore, follows that I think the judgment should be reversed.

¶6BARNS, J., concurs.

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