State v. Demerritt

This is an indictment in Oxford County Superior Court for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. It comes to the Law Court on respondent’s exceptions to the sustaining of the State’s demurrer to respondent’s special plea in bar, and exceptions to the denial of the respondent’s motion for a directed verdiet.

The respondent, Carroll Demerritt, then Chief of Police of the town of Rumford, Maine, was indicted by the Grand Jury at the November Term, 1952 for operating a car on Waldo Street in Rumford, November 2, 1952, while under the influence of intoxicating…