Case ID: pa-super_188/html/0401-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ervin, J., Watkins, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth v. Muth, Appellant.
    Argued November 10, 1958.
    Before Rhodes, P. J., Hirt, Gunther, Wright, Ervin, and Watkins, JJ. (Woodside, J., absent).
    
      December 17, 1958 :
    
      John W. Beyer, with him Arnold, Briclcer, Beyer & Barnes, for appellant.
    
      Richard M. Martin, Assistant District Attorney, with him William C. Storh, District Attorney, for appellee.
   Opinion by

Ervin, J.,

In this case it was stipulated by counsel that the testimony would be the same as in the case of Commonwealth v. Weik, 188 Pa. Superior Ct. 391, 147 A. 2d 164, “except as to weights.” In the present case the evidence showed that the overweight was 5,010 pounds.

The decision in this case is controlled by the opinion filed herewith in Commonwealth v. Weik, supra.

The judgment of sentence is affirmed.

Dissenting Opinion by

Watkins, J.:

For the reasons expressed in my dissent in Commonwealth v. Weik, 188 Pa. Superior Ct. 391, 147 A. 2d 164, I dissent from the majority opinion.

Gunther, J., joins in this dissent.