Charles William CRENSHAW
v.
COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.
Ruth Estelle HOFMANN
v.
COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.
Marvin Lee O'DELL
v.
COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.
Russell William SWENOR
v.
COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.
Supreme Court of Virginia.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 9, 1978.
June 9, 1978.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Henry J. Foresman, Lexington, Albert M. Orgain, IV, Richmond (William C. Plott, Foresman & Plott, Lexington, Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller, Richmond, on brief), for plaintiffs in error.
A. R. Woodroof, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., R. W. Fahy, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.
John James Jennings and The Association for Protection of Rights of Truckers Engaged in Commercial Transportation (L. Leyburn Mosby, Jr., Mosby & Jones, Lynchburg, on brief), amicus curiae, for plaintiffs in error.
Before I'ANSON, C. J., and CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN, POFF and COMPTON, JJ.
Supreme Court of Virginia.
CARRICO, Justice.
These four cases, heard together on appeal, all involve convictions under Code § 46.1-198.1.1 This Code section creates three misdemeanor offenses concerning devices or mechanisms to detect the emission of radio microwaves in the electromagnetic spectrum, which microwaves are employed by police to measure the speed of motor vehicles for law-enforcement purposes. The offenses are (1) the operation of a motor vehicle...
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