State v. Sherman

DANAHY, Judge.

The state appeals an order of the trial court granting Leola Sherman’s motion to quash an information charging her with willfully leaving the scene of an accident. The trial court granted the motion apparently because it concluded that Sherman was entitled to discharge under the speedy trial rule.1 We reverse.

Sherman was arrested on October 29, 1979, and charged by an information in circuit court on January 5, 1980, with leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury. The information, however, did not allege that she “willfully” left the accident scene. As a result…