Legal Opinion
State v. Goff
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided May 16, 1961No. File 9842PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RENTTO,. J.
The jury found defendant guilty of failing to stop after an accident resulting in personal injury in which he was involved as the driver of one of the vehicles. He was sentenced to- a term of 60 days in the county jail. One of his contentions on this appeal is that he should have been permitted to show that he fled to protect himself from “attack, serious injury, or death” at the hands of the driver of the other vehicle.
The accident happened around midnight on April 11, 1959 in the wide open spaces of Meade County on a county road at a point about 17 miles southwest of the town of…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Church of the Holy Trinity v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Guadalupe Garcia v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1936
- State v. KenstlerSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1921
- Isom v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1954
- Greer v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1927
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Walter Wynn, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1967
- State v. O'CONNORSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1978
- Knight v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1992
- Plank v. HeirigsSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1968
- State v. WiegersSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1985
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