Angelini v. Court of Common Pleas

CAREY, Justice.

The petitioners filed an action in the Superior Court seeking a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent Courts from proceeding further with various criminal charges pending against them. These charges were alleged violations of certain provisions of T. 21 Ch. 41, our traffic regulations or “rules of the road,” committed prior to June 5, 1964. By 54 L. of D. Ch. 160, approved on December 5, 1963, those “rules of the road” were repealed and new ones adopted, although the language of many were in fact unchanged. The new statute became effective six months after approval by…