Commonwealth v. Ralston

Citations

• 29 Pa. Super. 426
• 1905 Pa. Super. LEXIS 348

Syllabus

<p>Appeals — Summary conviction — Discretion—Petition.</p> <p>Where a petition for an appeal from a summaiy conviction is sufficient on its face to give the court jurisdiction, it will be presumed on appeal to the Superior Court, in the absence of anything to show the contrary, that the action of the court of quarter sessions, in allowing the appeal, was not arbitrary, but was the exercise of a sound legal- discretion in view of all the facts and circumstances properly within its cognizance.</p>