State v. Bromley

Jack K. Bromley challenges the sufficiency of the evidence in his conviction of exceeding the truck speed limit of sixty miles per hour in violation of § 304.010.2, RSMo Supp.1990 (amended 1991).

The judgment is reversed.

On February 18, 1991 at 8:51 p.m., a state trooper patrolling 1-35 observed a tractor/trailer pulling a grain trailer, called a “hopper bottom.” Believing the truck to be speeding, the trooper activated radar equipment and determined the truck’s speed to be eighty miles per hour. The trooper activated the emergency signal device of the vehicle he was driving, and the truck…