Diller
People v. Diller
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Shaw, J.
Defendant was convicted of the offense defined in section 367c of the Penal Code, Stats. 1911, p. 62, it being' charged that while driving an automobile a collision occurred between the one operated by him and another automobile, and that he did not stop his car, nor give the occupants of the other automobile the number of his car, his name and address, nor the name of the owner of the machine which he was driving when the collision occurred.
On appeal he attacks the validity of the statute upon the ground that it is obnoxious to section 13 of article I of the constitution, which provides that “no person shall be compelled, in any criminal ease, to be a witness against himself. ’ ’ Section 367c of the Penal Code, [Stats. 1913, p. 218] provides: “Whenever an automobile, motor cycle, or other motor vehicle, or any vehicle whatsoever, regardless of the power by which the same may be propelled or drawn, strikes any person, or collides with any vehicle containing a person, the driver of, and all persons in, such automobile, motor cycle or other motor vehicle, or other vehicle, who have or assume authority over such driver, shall immediately cause such automobile, motor cycle, .or…