Auto fatality conviction affirmed

The vehicular homicide conviction of Shane Allan Cummings in April of 2009 has been upheld in Division III Appeals Court in Spokane. An appeals court mandate of the Dec. 16 decision was filed in superior court here Monday.

Cummings was sentenced to 65 months in prison May 1, 2009, after a jury convicted him a week earlier of the death of Travis McCay, 22, Medical Lake.

McCay died as the result of injuries sustained when the Honda Protege driven by Cummings went off the Hole-in-the-Ground Road and down a 21-foot embankment in northwest Whitman County Feb. 18, 2009.

Deputies at the scene found b...