State v. Noyes

This respondent was charged with having committed a breach of the peace “by threatening, assaulting and striking with his motor vehicle another person, to-wit: one Joe LaPine.” The jury found him guilty, and judgment was entered upon the verdict. The cause is here upon his exceptions.

The affair took place on Park Street in the City of Rutland near the north gate of the premises of the Rutland Agricultural Association, upon which the annual fair was then being held. The fence enclosing the fair grounds abuts upon the highway, but there is a space between the 'fence and the surfaced roadway,…