State v. Pelletier

The state’s attorney for Caledonia County filed a complaint in Caledonia Municipal Court charging that the respondent “at Lyndonville in said County of Caledonia, on to wit, the 8th day of March, 1961 did then and there operate a motor vehicle, to wit, an M.G.A. automobile, on the public highway, to wit, U. S. route #5, in excess of the posted speed limit of 35 M.P.H., to wit, at a speed of 50 M.P.H., contrary to the form of the statute, in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State.” On the morning of the trial, counsel for the respondent stated to the court…