State v. Willers

A municipal court jury in the city of Sioux Falls found defendant guilty of permitting and causing a motor truck to be operated on a public highway without an adequate horn in violation of SDC 44.0347. He appealed from the judgment entered below imposing a fine. We find no error in the record and so affirm the judgment of conviction.

The truck involved was being operated by appellant employee. The charge grew out of a highway collision. The driver testified that the horn on the truck was not working at the time of the accident and had not worked any of the time that he had driven the truck…