Court Opinion

ID: 9544255
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:53:40.397141+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:12:31.119631
License: Public Domain

*404BROSKY, Judge,
concurring:
I join in the majority’s opinion as to the first issue in this case. As to appellant’s second issue, as I read the majority’s opinion, it does not resolve the question raised in Commonwealth v. Morris, 268 Pa.Super. 269, 407 A.2d 1350 (1979), whether 75 Pa.C.S. § 3367 is a speed provision and thus whether § 3366 requires a citation or complaint charging a violation of § 3367 to specify the speed at which the defendant is alleged to have driven and the applicable speed limit. Rather, the majority appears to hold that even if § 3367 is a speed provision that the absence of an allegation of speed in a citation or complaint is not a defect which warrants discharge. I would agree with the dissent in Morris and hold that § 3367 is not a speed provision. Of course, under either this analysis or the majority’s, a defendant is not entitled to be discharged if he is not informed of the applicable speed limit or the speed at which he is alleged to have driven. Therefore, I agree with the majority that the judgment of sentence must be affirmed.