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People v. Weeks

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Oct 31, 1963
13 N.Y.2d 944 (N.Y. 1963)

Summary

In People v. Weeks (13 N.Y.2d 944) defendant was issued a Simplified Traffic Information under section 147-g of the Code of Criminal Procedure for speeding.

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Opinion

Argued October 8, 1963

Decided October 31, 1963

Appeal from the Cayuga County Court, BERT S. WESTLAKE, J.P.

Theodore M. Coburn, District Attorney ( Charles W. Avery of counsel), for appellant.

Peter E. Corning for respondent.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General ( Paxton Blair and Philip J. Fitzgerald of counsel), amicus curiae.


Order of Cayuga County Court reversed and judgment of the Court of Special Sessions of the Town of Sennett reinstated. The challenged simplified traffic information, being substantially in the form prescribed by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles pursuant to section 207 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, when coupled with the bill of particulars of the violation charged filed by the peace officers, was sufficient to inform defendant and the court of the nature and character of the violation with which defendant was charged and to satisfy the applicable statutory requirements (Code Crim. Pro., § 147-a et seq., enacted as pt. IV, tit. III, ch. I-A [Simplified Traffic Informations] by L. 1962, ch. 605, eff. Oct. 1, 1962).

Concur: Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE, FULD, BURKE, FOSTER and SCILEPPI. Judge VAN VOORHIS dissents and votes to affirm.


Summaries of

People v. Weeks

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Oct 31, 1963
13 N.Y.2d 944 (N.Y. 1963)

In People v. Weeks (13 N.Y.2d 944) defendant was issued a Simplified Traffic Information under section 147-g of the Code of Criminal Procedure for speeding.

Summary of this case from People v. Boback
Case details for

People v. Weeks

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Appellant, v. HAROLD L. WEEKS…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Oct 31, 1963

Citations

13 N.Y.2d 944 (N.Y. 1963)
244 N.Y.S.2d 316
194 N.E.2d 132

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