Commonwealth v. Yerkes

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

The defendant, D. Martin Yerkes, was convicted and sentenced in the court of quarter sessions, inter alia, for malfeasance in office committed while acting as a justice of the peace. The conviction was affirmed by the Superior Court, and therefrom an appeal by defendant to this court was allowed on the constitutional questions involved alone. Section 33 of the Motor Vehicles Act of June 30, 1919, P. L. 678, 698, as amended by the Act of June 14, 1923, P. L. 718, 748, imposes penalties for certain violations of the act to be collected by summary conviction “before…