State v. Huxtable

This cause came on to be heard upon the appeal from the Eaton Municipal Court of Preble County.

Appellee, James W. Huxtable, was stopped by an Ohio State Highway Patrolman on April 18, 1983, and issued a citation for traveling eighty-three miles per hour in a fifty-five mile per hour zone. Ap-pellee was timed by a patrolman flying a patrol airplane. Appellee pled not guilty to a charge of exceeding the posted speed limit in violation of R.C. 4511.21, and a trial was held on September 30, 1983, in the Eaton Municipal Court. At trial, the court raised the issue of the competency of the pilot to…