Cross v. District of Columbia

Appellant was convicted in the Traffic Branch of the court on an information charging him with driving in excess of 40 miles an hour on a highway where that rate of speed was the posted limit. He was fined $58 and appealed his conviction to this court, as he had a right to do under D.C.Code 1967, § 11-721 (b) (Supp. V, 1972), the amount of the fine being in excess of $50.

On appeal, the judgment of the trial court is assailed on the grounds that (1) no testimony was offered to show that the radar instrument upon whose reading the summons was predicated was in accurate working order at the time…