ROYALS v. COMMONWEALTH


96 S.E.2d 812 (1957)

198 Va. 876

Clyde R. ROYALS v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

March 11, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Y. Hutcheson, Boydton (James E. Edmunds, III, Halifax, Edwin A. Crowder, Boydton, Ferguson, Yates & Stephens, Newport News, on the brief), for plaintiff in error.

C. F. Hicks, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), for defendant in error.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER and WHITTLE, JJ.


HUDGINS, Chief Justice.

This writ of error brings under review a judgment entered on a verdict finding Clyde R. Royals, hereinafter designated defendant, guilty of operating his automobile at an excessive rate of speed and imposing a fine of $20.

The only evidence tending to prove that defendant was driving at an unlawful rate of speed is the statement of C. H. Coleman, a state trooper, who testified that at 4:50...

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