Royals v. Commonwealth

This writ of error brings under review a judgment entered on a verdict finding Clyde R. Royals, hereinafter designated defendant, guilty of operating his automobile at an excessive rate of speed and imposing a fine of $20.00.

The only evidence tending to prove that defendant was driving at an unlawful rate of speed is the statement of C. H. Coleman, a state trooper, who testified that at 4:50 P. M. on January 14, 1955, he was operating a radar machine on U. S. Route 58 a few miles east of South Boston, Virginia, and that when defendant, proceeding west, went through the machine’s zone of…