State v. Nichols

This is a criminal action brought by information against the defendant, Raymond J. Nichols, charging him with leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury or death in violation of section 39-762, R. R. S. 1943.

Two questions are presented by the appeal:

1. That the verdict is not sustained by sufficient evidence.

2. That the court, committed prejudicial error in giving instruction No. 8 relating to circumstantial evidence.

The evidence for the State discloses that the defendant, on the afternoon of August 4, 1962, picked up one Velma Byrd in his 1954 yellow and white Buick, drove to…