Doane Student Receives Probation Sentence - KHGI-TV/KWNB-TV/KHGI-CD-Grand Island, Kearney, Hastings

Cody Barnes, 22, of Smithfield, was sentenced Tuesday to one year of probation for the death of a friend who had fallen from the truck Barnes was driving. 

Barnes had pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vehicular homicide.

Authorities say Cody Fanning, 20, and some other friends were riding in the bed of Barnes' truck in April. When Barnes turned a corner Fanning fell out and struck his head on the street. He died at a hospital.

The accident occurred in Crete near Doane College, where Barnes and Fanning were students.

Saline County Attorney Tad Eickman says Barnes had stopped the truck before the accident and told Fanning to sit down. But Fanning was standing just before he fell.