Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-12-30 | Page 9 | Unreasonable Speed Declared to be Indefinite

UNREASONABLE SPEED DECLARED TO 8E IIEF1TE A new trial for Jesse Gesas, convicted con-victed of involuntary manslaughter for the killing of Edward Davies in an automobile accident at Fifth East and Seventh South November 13, 1915, is ordered in an opinion of the supreme court handed down yesterday. The supreme court holds that the inforraaton on which Gesag was convicted con-victed was defective in that it did not allege a definite speed at which ho was traveling at the time of the accident. ac-cident. The information merely recited re-cited that lie was driving at an unreasonable un-reasonable rate of speed, quoting tho language of the state law which pro. vides that an auto should not be driven at an unreasonable speed. The court doe6 not hold that tho law is faulty is not prescribing in definite mileage what shall be consid. creu an unreasonaoie speed, out noius H that when an accused is charged with ,JH a crime based upon violation of the IH speed law the information must set IH forth as nearly as possible a definitr H speed at which the aQcjused was driv- JH ing, and leave It to the nry to dfl H termine whether or not such speed is H unreasonable. H