Reaves v. State

CATES, Judge.

Hit and run driving: sentence, five years in the penitentiary. Act No. 427, July 9, 1945.

A car hit a white female pedestrian in Powderly and did not stop. The State put a witness on the stand who testified that a few minutes after the time of the woman’s being hit, the defendant drove into his filling station. Reaves told this witness that he had hit two Negroes in Powderly. He asked that the witness tell the police (if questioned) that Reaves had left his car that day to be worked on. The witness refused. There was other testimony establishing the corpus delicti.

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