Carney v. State

BRETT, Judge:

Elmer Thomas Carney was convicted in the district court of Tulsa County on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident (personal injury), after former conviction of a felony; and was sentenced to eighteen months in the state penitentiary. Appeal has been perfected to this court.

Elmer Thomas Carney, a 25-year-old full-blood restricted Choctaw Indian, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was driving to the home of his sister in Tulsa, Oklahoma, about 9:30 in the morning of Sunday, July 12, 1963, when he struck Nevada Hartshorne, a pedestrian, who was on her way to Church, causing…