Handwerk Automobile License Case

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Patterson,

On October 6, 1941, while operating his automobile upon State Highway Route 145, Gordon Handwerk was stopped and arrested by a Pennsylvania motor policeman for exceeding the maximum speed limit of 50 miles an hour, prescribed by section 1002(b) of the Motor Vehicle Code. He paid a fine and costs to a local justice of the peace. Three months and ten days thereafter, a hearing was had before a representative of the Secretary of Revenue to determine whether Handwerk’s operator’s license should be suspended. More than two months later his operating privilege was…