Commonwealth v. Raspa

Opinion by

Hist, J.,

This appeal raises the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction of the defendant on a charge of aggravated assault and battery with a truck.

A road was being constructed on a W. P. A. project in the Strawberry Mansion section of Fairmont Park in Philadelphia; between 200 and 300 men were employed on the work. The road runs in a general northerly and southerly direction, and the improvement consisted in bringing the roadway to grade and paving it with crushed stone. So that traffic would not be interrupted, the west one half of the roadway was first…