People v. Hernandez

Opinion by

Judge J. JONES.

Defendant, Richard Anthony Hernandez, appeals the judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of leaving the seene of an accident and the district court's habitual criminal judgments. At trial, the prosecutor asserted that defendant violated the statutory prohibition against leaving the seene of an accident solely because he failed to identify himself as the driver at the scene. We conclude, however, that the statutes under which defendant was charged and convicted, sections 42-4-1601(1) and - 1603(1), C.R.S.2008, do not require the driver of a…