Commonwealth v. Artwell

deFURIA J.,

— Defendant was charged with failure to stop after an accident resulting in injury to a person or damage to property, a misdemeanor under The Vehicle Code of April 27, 1959, P. L. 58, sec. 1027, 75 PS § 1027(a).

He elected to be tried by a judge without a jury on June 18, 1970, and was found guilty. His motion for new trial is before us.

The Commonwealth’s case indicated that:

A young man, with his fiancee as passenger, was driving east on Eleventh Street, in the City of Chester, crossing Edgmont Avenue with a green light when they were struck broadside by a vehicle which went through…