Fodera

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of the defendant upon the charge of a violation of section 367c of the Penal Code, requiring drivers of automobiles colliding with other vehicles to stop and render a~sistance to the occupants of the vehicle collided with and who may have been injured by such collision, under penalties which render the act or neglect of such drivers in failing of refusing to comply with such requirements a felony.

The facts of this case immediately preceding, attending, and succeeding the collision are substantially these: On the evening of October 31, 1915, a little after sunset, the defendant was proceeding northward along the state highway near the town of Mayfield, in the county of Santa Clara, on Ms way home to San Francisco from Coyote, in that county, to which place he had made the trip earlier in the day. There were four companions with the defendant in the car, which he was driving at a rate estimated as exceeding forty miles an hour. A closed limousine, in which two ladies—Mrs. Carolan and Miss Shute—were being driven by a chauffeur, was also proceeding northward along the highway at that point at about twenty-five miles an hour. The…