State v. McCoy

The defendant, in a trial to the jury, was convicted of speeding in violation of § 14-219 of the General Statutes and in his appeal assigns these errors: (1) The denial of his motion to set aside the verdict; (2) the denial of his motion to correct the finding; (3) the court’s failure to charge in accordance with the defendant’s requests; (4) the setting of a $500 bond for the appeal; (5) certain rulings on evidence.

The state claimed to have proved that on September 6, 1965, at 10:30 p.m. the defendant was clocked by radar at seventy-four miles per hour while traveling westerly on the…