Roofner's Appeal

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

Appellants were the road supervisors of Franklin Township, Armstrong County. They were indicted and tried upon the charge of unlawfully neglecting and refusing to keep fit for public travel a certain public township road and allowing the same to become unsafe and dangerous for ordinary travel to the common nuisance of the citizens of the township. Toy and Zillefrow were acquitted and Ritchey was convicted. Judgment against the latter was arrested on the ground that the offense is no longer indictable in the court of quarter sessions, because, under section 240 of the…