Show C c Ridiculously Inadequate Pen Pel Penalty I I fHE HE I ludicrous inadequacy c of the punishment 1 provided for dr drunken reckless or and and I i n drivers who c. c caus fatalities s is emph emphasized tin fin Un cases ass as' as s no now nor before 1 c courts in 11 Utah ro men ar are h with stealing an la auto to driving riving r recklessly striking and killing Jh q women J and then compounding their crime rime by fJ fleeing frOm r ln the scene of th the accident jl or Jj-or stealing the auto they may be given gwen an n ind indeterminate sentence e in prison Yet for run run- fiting down and c causing usi g the d death ath of two the dri driver r alone may be punished only one ne year in th the c county jail under f Ja t charge of of involuntary manslaughter Such situation a is incongruous Surely a i drunk drunken n or reckless driver who causes aus s a a. fatal f t l accident o or or a motorist who fI flees es from froni rom an ac accident id nt and le leaves ves his dying is is guilty of a as grievous a crime at it least as the man who steals an auto Y Yet t the killer kitler can get get off with a year in lii in jail Binder Utah's lenient lay law while hile the thief thiet may be sentenced lo to y years years' ars' ars in prison Other states tates have hav remedied s such uchi ch farfetched statutory provisions pro pro- visions in many cases designating the culpable 1 taking of of lite life by motorists as first degree degre mud murder r. r The act oJ driving a car while in- in t thus making a man a potential killer kler should ul itself jj J be classed as a a. a felony Knie te next net t legislature sho should 14 remedy th these weaknesses in the Utah criminal code j 1 V tt 4 S 'S i I |