State v. Balderrama

BERNSTEIN, Justice.

Appellant was convicted in a trial by a jury in Maricopa County Superior Court of the crimes of assault with a deadly weapon, A.R.S. § 13-249, and leaving the scene of an accident, A.R.S. § 28-661. Appellant appeals from the conviction of assault with a deadly weapon but does not 'app'eal from the conviction for leaving the-scene of an accident; '

Appellant’s automobile struck a 10 year old boy at the intersection of 18th Street and Hadley Street in the City of Phoenix at about 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon. The boy had just left a school bus, and was crossing the street.…