Commonwealth v. Joyce

The defendant has been found guilty by a jury and sentenced on an indictment which charges that he did go away after knowingly colliding with and causing injury to a person without stopping and making known his name, residence, and the number of his motor vehicle. See G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 90, § 24, as amended. There was evidence for the Commonwealth that on January 10, 1950, at about 12:30 a.m. on Hanover Street in Lynn the automobile of the defendant “ran over” the body of a person lying near the center of the street. The automobile “stopped some distance down the street . . . [and] the…