Opinion
March 20, 1968.
June 13, 1968.
Motor Vehicles — Operator's license — Suspension — Violation listed under § 619.1 of The Vehicle Code — Suspension by secretary mandatory, not discretionary — Right of licensee to appeal — Limited scope of appeal — Evidence — Prima facie case of Commonwealth — The Vehicle Code.
Before WRIGHT, P.J., WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, SPAULDING, and HANNUM, JJ.
Appeal, No. 1103, Oct. T., 1967, from order of Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, No. 67-8893, in case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Walter L. Griggs. Order reversed.
Appeal by licensee from decision of Secretary of Revenue suspending motor vehicle operating privilege. Before SMILLIE, J.
Order entered reversing decision of Secretary of Revenue. Commonwealth appealed.
Elmer T. Bolla, Deputy Attorney General, with him William C. Sennett, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellant. Louis Sager, for appellee.
Argued March 20, 1968.
In this case the Secretary of Revenue suspended the appellee's operator's license for a period of 60 days under section 619.1(i) of The Vehicle Code, Act of April 29, 1959, P.L. 58, as amended, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 619.1(i), for accumulating eleven points. Appellee appealed to the court below which reversed the Secretary of Revenue. The testimony taken at the hearing before the court below was not transcribed nor do we have an opinion from the court below. Thus we have no way of telling what evidence was introduced by the Commonwealth or the operator or what the court's reasons were for reversing. Without such information we cannot make an intelligent disposition of this appeal. However, since the court below did not have the benefit of our opinion filed this day in Virnelson Motor Vehicle Operator License Case, 212 Pa. Super. 359, 243 A.2d 464 (1968), rather than remand for completion of the record, we hereby reverse the order of the court below and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with our opinion in Virnelson, supra.