Opinion
Gen. No. 40,875. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed April 8, 1940
AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES, § 254 — reckless driving, sufficiency of evidence. Evidence did not sustain conviction for reckless driving, where it showed defendant was in the center of an intersection preparing to make a left turn, traveling slowly, and he skidded on the ice and went over the curb, striking two boys and a store, there being evidence that the accelerator stuck and the racing of the motor caused the accident.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Error to Municipal Court of Chicago; Hon. JAY A. SCHILLER, presiding.
Reversed. Heard in first division, first district, this court at October term, 1939.
Joseph A. Ricker, for plaintiff in error; Thomas J. Courtney, State's Attorney, for defendant in error;
Edward E. Wilson, John T. Gallagher, Blair L. Varnes and Melvin S. Rembe, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel.
"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed April 8, 1940.