Commonwealth v. Horsfall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned on January 5, 1912, for alleged violation of the provisions of St. 1909, c. 534, § 22, with four counts.
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Indictment, found and returned on January 5, 1912, for alleged violation of the provisions of St. 1909, c. 534, § 22, with four counts. The first count charged the defendant with operating an automobile recklessly at Wilmington on November 11, 1911; the second count charged him with operating an automobile at the same time and place while under the influence of intoxicating liquor; the third count charged that the defendant on the same day “while operating an automobile on a way in Wilmington did knowingly go away without stopping and making himself known after causing injury to the person of…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This indictment charges in separate counts that the defendant (inter alla), in violation of St. 1909, c. 534, § 22, upon a public way, operated an automobile “recklessly” and “knowingly” went “away without stopping and making himself known after causing injury” to person and to property.
The undisputed facts were that the defendant, while driving a forty-eight horse power automobile of the touring car type upon a State road, struck an aged woman standing near a stationary automobile, inflicting injuries from which she died. The stationary automobile upon the side of the way was observed by the…
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