Scranton v. Engel

Citations

• 39 Pa. Super. 534
• 1909 Pa. Super. LEXIS 526

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Ordinances—Pawnbrokers—License—Act of March 7, 1901, P. L. 20.</p> <p>1. An ordinance of a city of the second class imposing a penalty of $200 for carrying on the business of a pawnbroker without a license, may be amended so as to reduce the penalty to $100, and thus make it conform to the Act of March 7,1901, P. L. 20. A conviction and sentence under the amended ordinance will be sustained.</p> <p>2. A conviction for violating such an ordinance will not be set aside on the ground that there was no evidence of the passage of such ordinance, where it appears that a copy of the ordinance was attached to the magistrate's record, and it was agreed that the case should be tried “on the evidence sent up by the magistrate as a part of his transcript.”</p> <p>3. An ordinance providing that a fine shall be paid to the city, imports that it shall be paid to the city treasury, and is not open to the objection that it does not disclose to whom the fine shall be paid.</p>