State v. Caron

Appellant Raymond J. Caron was charged with a violation of 29 M.R.S.A. § 893 which makes it a crime to leave the scene of an accident involving personal injury without stopping and making oneself known in the manner prescribed by 29 M.R. S.A. § 896. A jury trial was held and a guilty verdict was returned.

Included in the trial court’s charge to the jury was the following statement:

“This Defendant says that he remained for what he says was a reasonable period of time. He says that he was uncomfortable for personal reasons and he had to leave to go to his attorney’s office to go to the bathroom.…