Commonwealth v. Buxton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the Roxbury District of the City of Boston on April 28, 1909, for a violation of the rules and regulations of the board of park commissioners of the city of Boston, by operating an automobile on Commonwealth Avenue within the jurisdiction of said commissioners at a rate of speed exceeding twelve miles an hour on April 27, 1909. The defendant was found guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of $20. He appealed to the…
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Complaint, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the Roxbury District of the City of Boston on April 28, 1909, for a violation of the rules and regulations of the board of park commissioners of the city of Boston, by operating an automobile on Commonwealth Avenue within the jurisdiction of said commissioners at a rate of speed exceeding twelve miles an hour on April 27, 1909. The defendant was found guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of $20. He appealed to the Superior Court. In the Superior Court the case came on to be tried before Wait, J., upon an agreed statement of facts.…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The defendant contends that the apparatus offered was inadmissible first, because of the “ insufficiency of *53. . . [the] . . . ex parte experiments intended to show the reliability of the machine,” and second, because of the failure of the Commonwealth “ to show the trustworthiness of said stop watch mechanism, an integral part of the apparatus.” j In support of the first objection he insists that the evidence of the experiments described in the fifth paragraph of the “ agreed statement of facts ” was inadmissible and the experiments themselves insufficient because the conditions under which…
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