State v. Delaire

This is a speeding case. The offense was detected by radar, and the information charged the respondent with operating an automobile on Route 100, in Waterbury Center, “at a rate of speed in excess of the legal rate, 40 miles per hour” contrary to statute, and against the peace and dignity of the State. The jury convicted, the court denied his motion in arrest of judgment, and he has appealed.

He first challenges the information bringing the charge as insufficient. The speed limit involved, 40 miles an hour, was a special one. Although it was not a local ordinance, but a state limit, it was one…