Commonwealth v. McDannell

MacPhail, P. J.,

This defendant is charged with violating the Act of April 29, 1959, P. L. 58, sec. 842, 75 PS §842, which prohibits the transportation of “logs of any size” on our highways unless they are securely fastened with at least three binders, chains or straps.

On the date in question, defendant was hauling a truck load of pulpwood on a public highway in Adams County. The arresting officer testified that his attention was called to defendant’s truck as it passed him going in the opposite direction because it appeared “very unsafe to me”. The officer testified that there were three…