DEMANDS OF JUSTICE
SPEEDING APPEAL ALLOWED
Corroborative evidence necessary to secure the conviction of a motorist for exceeding the speed limit depends upon the observations of witnesses being taken at the same time and place. This was established recently in England in the HJgh Court by the A.A. The Court* allowed an appeal conducted against the conviction of a motorist who had been fined 20s, and had his licence endorsed by the Cambridge Justices, for exceeding the limit. At the original hearing it was admitted that the estimation of the defendant's speed was taken by two police officers who were nearly half a mile apart. Under the Road Traffic Act, conviction for exceeding the speed limit cannot be secured solely on the opinion of one witness.
The Appeal Court accepted the submission of counsel for the A.A. that the Act had not been complied with, and in quashing the conviction allowed costs against the police.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 5
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