People v. McLachlan

The defendant was charged with violating subdivision (a) of section 560 of the Vehicle Code and now appeals from a judgment of conviction entered against him. The code provision just mentioned reads as follows: “The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.” The terms “roadway” and “crosswalk” are defined in the Vehicle Code, but no questions arise here as to their meaning, and those definitions need not be copied.

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