People v. Hicken

Defendant was convicted January 21, 1959 of speeding in violation of a city ordinance. His trial was in Niagara Falls City Court before Judge Thomas B. Lee, without a jury.

The defendant admitted orally and in a written statement that he had been driving 40 miles per hour in a 30-mile zone. At the trial he repudiated these statements, but the Trial Judge was not bound to credit the repudiation. There was also testimony, which the trier of the facts was free to accept, that the automobile skidded over 100 feet before coming to a stop. The evidence was conflicting, but this court cannot say the…