Commonwealth v. Muth

Opinion by

Mr. Justice McBride,

While a Pennsylvania State Trooper was patrolling U. S. Route No. 222 about one mile north of Quarry-ville in the Township of Providence, Lancaster County, a truck operated by defendant Weik passed him in the opposite direction and spilled part of a load of stone on the patrol car. The trooper, noticing that the truckload was unusually high, turned his car around and pursued it. A little more than a mile thereafter he halted the truck in Strasburg Township and examined Weik’s weight slip. This showed that the gross weight was unlawful.

During a conversation with…