Huber v. City of Casper

URBIGKIT, Justice.

Emerick Huber appeals convictions, affirmed by a district court acting as an intermediate appellate court, of violating a Casper city ordinance enjoining leaving the scene of an accident and failing to report an accident. Based on ordinance interpretation, we reverse.

In the early hours of Easter morning, 1985, appellant Huber, Sharon Hedges, and off-duty Highway Patrol Officer Brad Ward were returning in appellant’s van from a Casper nightclub, bound for appellant’s office. Near the cemetery they spotted a young woman in the darkness who “looked like she was in trouble.”…