Commonwealth v. Clark

The defendant was convicted before a justice of the peace of a violation of section 19 of the Act of Assembly approved June 30, 1919, P. L. 678, and from such conviction appealed.

At the hearing upon the appeal the Commonwealth called but one witness, Benjamin Restine, a police officer of Lower Merion Township. Officer Restine testified that March 27, 1926, the defendant was driving an automobile in an easterly direction on Montgomery Avenue, in Lower Merion Township; that the witness trailed defendant for the distance of one-quarter of a mile; that the speedometer on the witness’s motorcycle…