People v. Limon

Appellant was convicted of violation of section 20001 of the Vehicle Code (hit and run in personal injury accident).; The vehicle of which appellant, Peter Limón, was the driver was seen by the victim of the accident a moment before it struck him. The victim, Samuel Murdock, had been walking along a sidewalk. Murdock saw no one in the car but the driver. At that time the car was only five feet away. Murdock was knocked into a liquor store window., Philip Reed, who was driving another vehicle, saw the Limón automobile with only one occupant about twenty feet distant from Reed and approaching…