State v. Jones

The defendant, Thomas Rowe Jones, appeals from a conviction for leaving the scene of a personal injury accident in violation of section 39-762, R. R. S. 1943. The assignments of error relate to the instructions to the jury and the refusal to grant a mistrial at the close of the argument to the jury.

The accident occurred at about 8:30 p.m., on June 12, 1969. Dan Curran, a boy 15 years of age, and two other boys were walking south on Memorial Drive in Lincoln, Nebraska. There is no sidewalk along Memorial Drive where, the’accident happened. The boys were walking abreast with Dan on the right…