Court Opinion

ID: 9863031
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 02:51:07.458042+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:46:13.747475
License: Public Domain

Gailoe, Justice
(concurring).
I concur with the majority in the result, but reach it on different grounds from those expressed in the opinion. The undisputed evidence is that the Defendant, while drunk, parked his truck on the public highway and then abandoned the vehicle. This parking was a “driving” within the prohibition of Code Sections 10827-10828, and therefore an unlawful act malum in se. Hurt v. State, 184 Tenn. 608, at page 612, 201 S. W. (2d) 988, at page 990. As a direct and proximate result of a collision with this unlighted truck, one J. C. Smith was killed.
*633Clearly, the death of Smith was caused by the Defendant while in the commission of an unlawful act, and so the death supports a conviction for involuntary manslaughter. It is upon the grounds stated that I think that the judgment should be affirmed.