Lowe v. State

NEAL, Judge.

Defendant-appellant Robert P. Lowe was convicted of leaving the scene of a property damage accident by the Monroe Superior Court, Small Claims — Misdemeanor Division, in a bench trial. From a penalty of a fine, costs and a suspended ten-day sentence, he appeals.

We reverse.

STATEMENT OF THE FACTS

The evidence most favorable to the judgment discloses that in the early morning hours of January 7, 1981, Bloomington Police Officer John Pickel found an orange Saab which had struck an electric light pole located two feet away from the roadway at the intersection of Third Street and…