Pelletier v. Williamson

This proceeding was brought in the superior court when the registrar of motor vehicles suspended the plaintiff's license to operate a motor vehicle. What prompted the suspension was receipt in the registry of an abstract of a district court record showing that the plaintiff had been sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and costs upon his plea of nolo contendere to a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor. The plaintiff appealed to the superior court from that sentence and the thrust of this action is that the appeal deprived the district court’s conviction of that…