State v. Shiffrin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for a violation of the motor-vehicle law, brought to the Criminal Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Simpson, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the defendant. The evidence in this case was confined to that given on behalf of tfie State by a deputy automobile inspector.
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Information for a violation of the motor-vehicle law, brought to the Criminal Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Simpson, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the defendant. The evidence in this case was confined to that given on behalf of tfie State by a deputy automobile inspector. That portion of his testimony which concerned the public-service character of the automobile which the accused was operating, was to the effect that on the evening of December 20th, 1917, at about six-thirty o’clock, he observed it standing near the curb in a…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The defendant was convicted upon an information which charged him with operating a public-service motor-vehicle without complying with the requirements of § 24 of Chapter 333 of the Public .Acts of 1917 concerning the display of the public-service registration number-plates, and the maintenance of interior lights. That there was noncompliance with these requirements was not denied. The defense was that the motor-vehicle which the accused was operating was not operated as a public-service one within the meaning of the statute.
The Act, in its first section, contains a definition of terms…
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