175 A.2d 378 | Conn. Super. Ct. | 1961
On June 3, 1961, at or about 12:40 a.m., the defendant, whose right to operate a motor vehicle in this state was then under suspension, was behind the steering wheel of his disabled automobile, which he tried to guide or steer as he was being pushed along a public highway by another vehicle. Upon these facts, which were not in dispute, the court found the defendant guilty of a violation of §
"Where a vehicle is in motion, the motion need not be induced through the application of the motive power of the vehicle itself in order for one steering such a vehicle . . . to be held guilty of operating *496
. . . . Thus, in a number of cases a defendant who steered a motor vehicle while it was being towed or pushed by another vehicle has been held to have been operating such vehicle in violation of law." Note, 47 A.L.R. 2d 570, 580, and cases therein cited; Chamberlain v. State,
The defendant relies upon a statement in State v.Swift,
The trial court could reasonably conclude that the defendant was operating a motor vehicle while his license was under suspension, within the meaning of §
There is no error.
In this opinion WRIGHT and WILLIAMS, Js., concurred.