Bentley v. Macduff

The 1953 amendment of section 335-a of the Code of Criminal Procedure, in my opinion, was to express a clear legislative intention, to establish a uniform warning to be given in all cases, involving a charge of violating the Vehicle *455and Traffic Law. The enactment was for the express purpose of overcoming the decisions by the courts under the section as it existed prior to that amendment. See memorandum of State Department of Taxation and Finance, with respect to Assembly Introductory Bill Number 1086, Print No. 1105, which became chapter 288 of the Laws of 1953, resulting in the present form…