State v. Duffy

Here the trial court entered an order authorizing civil compromise and dismissed a criminal charge against the defendant. The state appeals, contending —and we hold correctly so — that a criminal charge based upon failure of a driver involved in an accident to leave his name and address is not a charge which can be dismissed on the basis of civil compromise. The civil compromise statute provides:

"When a defendant is charged with a crime punishable as a misdemeanor for which the person injured by the act constituting the crime has a remedy by civil action, the crime may be compromised * * *.”…