Legal Opinion · Dissent

Abney v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided April 26, 2002No. 49S02-0204-CR-255Published

1DissentSullivan, Justice

I respectfully dissent. I think the in-" struction used by the trial court here (and approved by the Court of Appeals in Stephenson v. State, 648 N.E.2d 395 (Ind.Ct.App.1995), trans. denied), is faithful to this court's directives in Micinski v. State, 487 N.E.2d 150 (Ind.1986).

Micinski reversed a conviction for leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury on grounds that the defendant was entitled to an instruction to the effect *1179that he needed to have "knowledge that there was an injury accident." 487 N.E.2d at 152. That holding-which drew two dissents-is not at issue in…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Micinski v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1986
  2. Higginbotham v. StateIndiana Court of Appeals · 1981
  3. Stephenson v. StateIndiana Court of Appeals · 1995

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