Commonwealth v. Milspaw

Opinion,

This case involves an appeal from an Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County, dated November 2, 1970. This order sustained the appeal of Robert Frank Milspaw (appellee) from the findings of the Secretary of Revenue (now called Secretary of Transportation) suspending appellee’s operator’s license for a period of three months.

The Vehicle Code (Act of August 6, 1963, P. L. 509, as amended, 75 P.S. 620), provides that the Courts of Common Pleas, in appeals arising from the suspension of operator’s licenses, are directed to hear such cases de novo. The Common Pleas judge…