People v. Kohler

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction after trial for violation of section 1180 (subd. [b], par. 3) of the Vehicle and Traffic Law and from the sentence imposed. The result reached herein makes it unnecessary to review the facts constituting the traffic infraction. The principal point on appeal involves the question as to whether on the trial of a charge of speeding, which constitutes a traffic infraction (Vehicle and Traffic Law, § 155), it was the duty of the trial court to inform the defendant that he had a right to be represented by counsel.

The trial record shows that the…