State v. Phillips
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On agreed statement of facts. The defendant was arrested on -a warrant duly issued by the Bar Harbor Municipal Court for an alleged violation of a special act of the Legislature approved March 12, 1909, entitled "An Act to prohibit the use of automobiles in the towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor, on the island of Mount Desert.”
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On agreed statement of facts. The defendant was arrested on -a warrant duly issued by the Bar Harbor Municipal Court for an alleged violation of a special act of the Legislature approved March 12, 1909, entitled "An Act to prohibit the use of automobiles in the towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor, on the island of Mount Desert.” The defendant pleaded not guilty but on trial was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of $20 and costs and thereupon the defendant appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court. An agreed statement of facts was filed in the appellate court and the…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
This is a criminal prosecution for an alleged violation of a special act of the Legislature approved March 12, 1909, entitled "An Act to prohibit the use of automobiles in the towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor on *251the Island of Mount Desert.” The respondent was found guilty by the Municipal Court of Bar Harbor and appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court for Hancock County. The case comes to the Law Court on an agreed statement of facts.
Section one of the special act in question, declares that "no automobile or motor vehicle shall be set up, used, driven or operated in or…
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