State ex rel. Campbell v. Fortier

*1224OPINION

This matter comes before the court on a consolidated appeal from the defendants' several convictions of parking on a sidewalk in violation of Traffic Regulation 5754 of the city of Providence. The defendants argue their appeal on two grounds. We consider the second ground, the state’s failure to introduce into evidence a provision stating a penalty for violation of the regulation, dispositive of this appeal.

The state concedes that it failed to introduce a penalty provision into the Superior Court record.* The state claims, however, that the defendants’ failure to raise the issue below…