State v. Kilday

This is a criminal complaint and warrant, charging the defendant with operating a motor vehicle on the public highway at a speed greater than was reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having due regard to the hazards then existing in violation of G. L. 1956, §31-14-1. The case was tried to a justice of the superior court, sitting without a jury, who found the defendant guilty as charged. The case is here on the defendant’s bill of exceptions containing an exception to the denial of the defendant’s plea in abatement of the complaint for failure to properly name the state as the…