Hubbell v. Macduff

In Matter of Astman v. Kelly (2 N Y 2d 567), also decided today, we considered an amendment made in 1940 to section 335-a of the Code of Criminal Procedure. In the present case, we are called upon to construe a further amendment of that section, one enacted in 1953.

Allen Hubbell, following a plea of guilty in each instance, was convicted of three separate charges of speeding — the first in October, 1953, the second in November, 1953, the third in July, 1954 — and, some six weeks after the last conviction, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles revoked his license to drive and suspended his…