Commonwealth v. Bart

Anderson, J.,

Defendant, Coleman Bart, was found guilty by the Mayor of the City of York of violating an ordinance of the city, section 1 of which provides as follows:

*605“It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to cast or place . . . upon the porches of any dwellings or other buildings within the limit of the city, any paper, advertisement, handbills, circulars or waste paper; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be held to apply to newspapers and addressed envelopes.”

From this finding of the mayor defendant has appealed.

At the hearing on the appeal it was admitted that…