Commonwealth v. Fondak

Acker, J.,

Defendant in this case comes before this court upon a petition for a writ of certiorari attacking the proceedings by a justice of the peace wherein he was found guilty of two violations of The Vehicle Code. The position of defendant must be sustained.

The essential requirements of a transcript or record in a summary proceeding before a justice of the peace have been stated in various manners by our lower courts.1

The rule has been set forth by our Supreme Court in Reid v. Wood, 102 Pa. 312, 316 (1882), that “. . . a summary conviction shall contain a finding that a specific act has…