People v. Jones

Stephen S. Scopas, M.

This case involves a charge against one Allan R. Jones, of operating a motor vehicle on the 6th day of December, 1957 at about 7:00 p.m. in excess of the speed allowed by law, to wit, 40 miles per hour in violation of section 60 of article 4 of the Traffic Regulations of the City of New York.

The summonsing officer, patrolman Jack Katz, testified that while operating radio patrol car number 1231, defendant was observed traveling north on the Van Wyck Expressway at what appeared to him to be an excessive rate of speed; that he paced the defendant at an equal distance from…