People v. DeWitt

On August 17, 1940, the defendant, a youth seventeen years of age and a resident of the city of Johnstown, 1ST. Y., was arrested on or prior to an information sworn to on said date by Trooper W. J. Sullivan of the State Police Department charging that at about eight o’clock in the afternoon of that date at a public highway in the town of Caroga, in said county, he “ did commit the crime of misdemeanor Inadequate Brakes in violation of Section 15 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York by wrongfully, unlawfully, willfully and knowingly did operate a motor vehicle on the public…