Goar v. State

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• applying the following culpable mental state: “the accused had knowledge of the circumstances surrounding his conduct, meaning the defendant had knowledge that the accident occurred”
• the jury was entitled to disbelieve appellant’s testimony that he thought he hit a mailbox and that he tried to look for a possible victim given the time line of the accident and other witness testimony who came upon the scene and saw the injured victim
• the jury was entitled to disbelieve appellant's testimony that he thought he hit a mailbox and that he tried to look for a possible victim given the time line of the accident and other witness testimony who came upon the scene and saw the injured victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).