People v. Misner
Decision Date | 13 July 1955 |
Docket Number | Cr. 989 |
Court | California Court of Appeals Court of Appeals |
Parties | The PEOPLE of the State of California, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Robert Chase MISNER, Defendant and Respondent. |
Edmund G. Brown, Atty. Gen., William E. James, Deputy Atty. Gen., Lowell E. Lathrop, Dist. Atty., of San Bernardino County, and Edward F. Taylor, Deputy Dist. Atty., San Bernardino, for appellant.
Julius J. Novack, San Bernardino, for respondent.
Defendant was charged with the crime of violation of section 480 of the California Vehicle Code. It was alleged in the Information that Robert Chase Misner 'On or about the 1st day of October, 1954, in the said County of San Bernardino, State of California, being then and there the driver of a vehicle upon a public highway, which said vehicle was then and there involved in an accident resulting in injury to a human being, to wit: Wayne Edwin Ledyard, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously fail to fulfill the requirements of section 482(a) of the California Vehicle Code.
Section 480 of the Vehicle Code provides as follows:
Section 482(a) of said code provides as follows:
Defendant was arraigned in the Superior Court and moved to dismiss the information upon the ground that he had been committed without reasonable or probable cause. The motion to dismiss was granted, the court holding that 'The transcript does not show or give reasonable suspicion of an offense having been committed.' The People appeal from this order.
The transcript of the preliminary examination shows that at about 10:00 o'clock p. m. on October 1, 1954, W. E. Ledyard was driving his automobile in an easterly direction on Kendall Drive near the city of San Bernardino. Kendall Drive runs generally east and west and intersects Devil's Canyon Road, which runs north and south. When Ledyard was about 200 feet from this intersection he observed a car approaching it from the south on Devil's Canyon Road. The driver of the northbound car did not stop his car at the boulevard stop sign as he entered the intersection and his car struck the eastbound car on the right side. Ledyard's eastbound car came to rest facing in a westerly direction in the westbound lane of Kendall Drive and at a point approximately 100 feet east of the intersection. Ledyard was thrown to the floor boards of his car, his back was injured and his head was cut. He crawled out of the door on the righthand side of his car and went over to the other car involved in the collision. He observed that the motor was still running in the Chrysler sedan and that there was no driver in it. He turned off the ignition, and then noticed a Ford automobile on the south side of Kendall Drive and a man standing beside it. He talked with this man (W. B. Murrel) and told him that the fellow who was driving the Chrysler was probably thrown out and that they should walk around the car a couple of times to make sure. Ledyard testified that they circled the Chrysler and found no one there; that he walked back to his car; and that he was not 'feeling too good at the time.'
Walter Baker Murrel, who was a passenger in the Ford car, testified that he observed the two cars collide; that he saw the Chrysler 'run the stop sign'; that he saw Ledyard 'cut the switch off at the Chrysler'; that he and Ledyard walked back to the Chrysler to see if they could find the driver; that he observed a man, whom he could not identify, lying on the ground about 20 feet from the Chrysler; that this man 'got up and took off across the field', apparently staggering.
Sergeant Hickey of the California Highway Patrol testified that he saw the defendant on October 2, 1954, in the Highway Patrol office in San Bernardino; that Misner asked him if the form on the office counter was the report he had to fill out to report an accident; that he told Misner it was and at the same time asked him his name and the location of the accident; that Misner then told him that the accident had occurred at Devil's Canyon Road and Kendall Drive and that his name was Robert Misner; that he told Misner...
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