Commonwealth Ex Rel. Lyons v. Day

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

This is an appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Philadelphia County granting a writ of habeas corpus and discharging relator who was originally given a general sentence on a burglary conviction to the Pennsylvania Industrial School at Camp Hill. The determinative question is whether the Legislature intended the Act of July 29, 1953, P.L. 1447, § 1, further amending sections 4 and 6 of the Act of April 28, 1887, P.L. 63, 61 PS § 485, and limiting the duration of a general sentence to the Pennsylvania Industrial School to six years, to apply…