City of Columbus v. Beery

This is an appeal on questions of law by defendant, appellant herein. The sole question presented is whether a court of record is empowered to suspend or revoke a motor vehicle operator’s license after conviction or a plea of guilty when prosecuted under a hit-and-run ordinance of a charter city, to wit, Columbus, Ohio. The state statute involved is Section 4507.16, Revised Code.

Defendant, Harry Clinton Beery, entered a plea of guilty to being the driver of a certain motor vehicle upon a street in the city of Columbus, which had a collision with the automobile of another due to the driving of…