New Britain herald., 1924-05-29
STATES EVIDENCE
 WEAK, JUDGE SAYS
SorTeIl Goes Free by filings
 Decision in Police Court

Judge Benjamin W. Alins suspend ed judgment in the case of Jack Sor- rell of 2US Clark street. charged with operating an automobile while under the influence of liqucr, when the case was taken up for disposition this morning in police court. A charge of resistance also placed against Sor- rell was also disposed of Judge AL ling discharging the defendant on that count.
 In announcing his decision, the court said that the state had pro- duced no evidence that Sorrell was under the influence of liquor at the time that he was driving tho machine, and said that as far as the resistance was concerned, Sorrell had done only what any other living man would have done if he were bounced upon in a dark street hy two men.
 When the case was heard yesterday in the police court, Judge Alling took the case under consideration, com menting that there were many incon- sistencies in the evidence given by the police in the case. Sorrcll was placed under arrest by Policemen David Doty and kozlauskas on Winter street on a charge of operating under the influence of liquor about an hour after they had seen him drive down Main street in his machine. They found him later in drunken condition, ac- cording to their story.
 Reckless Driver Fined Sa5
 nf f, tnn street. charged With reckless driving, was fined S25, after a lengthy debate between Judge Alling, Assistant Prosecutor William A. Greenstein and Attorney P F. McDonough over how many rights there are at an inter section. The court and Greenstein contended that there is left for every right, while Attorney McDon- ough contended that there is a pre- dominance of rights at the intersec- ton of Broad and Beaver streets.
 Fazzina was arrested Tuesday night after he became involved in an &C., cident at the intersecting streets. Policeman Thomas J. Feeney investi- gated the accident and placed fazzina under arrest,
 Didn't see Traffic Signal
 Harold G. Manning had judgment suspended in his case when he was arraigned on a charge of failing to stop when signaled to do so by Traf- fe Officer Delbert Nelcy at the South church corner.
 Manning pleaded not guilty. Nslcy told the court that he sgnalled Tor Manning to stop and he failed to do so. When he got by the traffic post, Veley blew his whistle several times, and Manning only looked around and continued Veley then got onto a passing machine and caught him, placing him under arrest. Manning told the court that he did not catch the signal soon enougN, and he was almost by when he noticed it. He thought that he might just as well continue then seeing he had proceed ed so far.
 Naaua Contributes S35
 vaoua Bantista was fined SIC for having improper brakes on machine he was driving, and s25 for reckless driving. He was arrested last night 1 at Franklin square by Traffic Officer Hanford Dart, after a mixup in which | he almost ran the policeman doNN,
 Dart testified that he gave the man | the signal 10 proceed and Bantista | swung over to the left hand side or the road. He asked him what he was doing on that side of the road and | Bantista stopped his machine and started to back up. As he did so, sev- eral other machines had to stop | abruptly to avoid being hit. Dart | then signalled for him to so ahead, | and Bantista turned the machine and it shot directly towards the police man, Dart darting 10 the side to es- cade being hit. The machine con tinued to the curbing and crashed into a machine parked near the eurbing.
 TrazcinsLi Case Continued
 Ludwig Trazcinsli of 12 Lyman l street arrested last night following an accident at the corner Of East Main 1 street and Hartford avenue by Police man John Giffen on a charge or l operating under the influence Of H. quor pleaded not guilty and had his | case continued until Monday at the | request Of his attorney Michael A. Sexton.