Commonwealth v. Sticco

Kreider, J.,

We have before us an appeal by defendant, Nicola Sticco, who had previously pleaded guilty before John V. Gjuran, a Justice of the Peace of East Hanover Township, Dauphin County, and paid a fine of $4,200 on a charge of operating a truck tractor and semitrailer whose weight with that of the load exceeded by 42,500 pounds the weight permitted by law.

Defendant in his petition for allowance of appeal prays that his sentence by the justice of the peace be set aside and that the $4,200' fine be repaid to him. Defendant bases his objections to the sentence on three propositions which…