State v. Foster

The information charged the defendant with the crime of evading responsibility. General Statutes § 14-224. After a trial in which the defendant neither took the stand nor offered any evidence in his own behalf, the court entered a judgment of guilty. In this appeal, the sole assignment of error is in the court's conclusion that upon all the evidence the defendant was guilty of the crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt.

The evidence may be briefly summarized as follows: On December 14, 1961, after 6 p.m., Carmen N. Pazzina was in the driveway of premises on the east side of Arch Street in the…