People v. Marshall
Michigan Supreme Court
106 N.W.2d 842 (1961)
Relevant factsFree
Marshall knowingly gave his car keys to an intoxicated person who later drove the wrong way on a highway and collided head-on with another vehicle, killing himself and the other driver, while Marshall was asleep at home at the time and was already separately punished under a statute criminalizing knowingly permitting an intoxicated person to drive one's vehicle.
IssueFree
Whether, in Michigan, one who knowingly and temporarily gives his vehicle to an intoxicated person to drive, but is not in the vehicle himself, may be convicted of involuntary manslaughter when the driver causes the death of another in a head-on collision.