Perry v. Petit

This is a petition for certiorari to review a judgment entered in the Superior Court sustaining the petitioner’s appeal, on constitutional grounds, from a decision of the respondent Registrar of Motor Vehicles denying the petitioner’s application for a motor vehicle operator’s license and remanding the case to the registrar for a further hearing. On September 19, 1974, we granted the petition and ordered the writ to issue forthwith.

The case was heard before us on February 6, 1976. The petitioner’s principal argument was that the Superior Court should have ordered the registrar to grant the…