State v. Raposa

This is a criminal complaint and warrant charging the defendant with operating on Pawtucket Avenue in the City of East Providence, a motorcycle not equipped with a front fender, in violation of G. L. 1956, §31-23-26. The case was tried without the intervention of a jury to a Superior Court justice who found the defendant guilty as charged. It is before us on the defendant’s bill of exceptions.1

In his bill, defendant prosecuted three exceptions, all of which were pressed when the case was orally argued here. The first such exception is to the trial justice’s overruling of his plea in abatement…