People v. Winston
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant from an order of the County Court of Westchester county, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 1st day of February, 1911, affirming a judgment of conviction for violation of section 287 of the Highway Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 25; Laws of 1909, chap. 30), as added by chapter 374 of the Laws of 1910, after a trial in the Mount Vernon Court of Special Sessions.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The defendant was charged by an information with having “wilfully, knowingly and unlawfully” operated a motor vehicle, an automobile, “at a greater rate of speed than thirty miles an hour on said highway in violation of and contrary to section 287, chapter 374 of Laws of 1910, constituting chapter 25 of the Consolidated Laws of Hew York as amended.” There is no charge that the defendant operated his automobile at a speed in excess of thirty miles an horn* for a distance of one-fourth of a mile, and in the absence of such an allegation no crime is charged. Hor does the proof…
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