State v. Diggins

These are criminal complaints. In the first case the defendant Bernard J. Diggins is charged with exceeding the speed limit in Rogers Williams Park in violation of a traffic ordinance of the city of Providence. He filed a plea in abatement to which the state filed a replication. After a hearing thereon the superior court denied the plea, and after trial the defendant was found guilty. The case is before this court only on the defendant’s exception to the trial justice’s denial of his plea in abatement.

The Diggins case.was tried in the superior court, and was briefed and argued in this court,…