State v. Pfeifer

Citations

• 96 Kan. 791
• 153 P. 552
• 1915 Kan. LEXIS 495

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Information — Driving Automobile at Excessive Speed — Information Fails to Charge a Public Offense. An information which merely charges that a defendant drove his automobile past two persons traveling in a buggy in the same direction on the public ’highway in the open country at a greater speed than eight miles an hour, but which does not charge defendant with driving at an unreasonable or dangerous speed, nor with failure to have due regard for the traffic or use of the'road or its condition, nor at a speed which endangered the life or limb of any person, nor otherwise with failing in his duty to observe the rules of the road, does not state a penal offense under chapter 65 of the Laws of 1913.</p>