Nidever v. Ayers

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Accordingly, a jury charge on the defense of accident to a strict liability traffic offense is available only where there is evidence, however slight, that the defendant did not voluntarily commit the prohibited act.”
• “Accordingly, a jury charge on the defense of accident to a strict liability traffic offense is available only where there is evidence, however slight, that the defendant did not voluntarily commit the prohibited act.”
• “unless the particular provision indicates otherwise, the traffic offenses defined in Chapter 6’s Rules of the Road are ‘strict liability’ offenses, meaning that they can be committed without a culpable mental state”
• in cases involving strict liability traffic offenses, the defense of accident “must be based... on evidence that the prohibited act was committed involuntarily, for example, because of an unforeseeable physical ailment or external force”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).