Com. v. Falls and Sykes

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The relators, William Palls and D. Harvey Sykes, formerly two constables in Delaware County, petitioned the court for their release, alleging that sentences imposed upon them were illegal and unauthorized by law. Sykes was indicted and found guilty of extortion, bribery, violating the liquor laws, malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance in office, and conspiracy, and was sentenced under each indictment to pay a fine and undergo imprisonment in jail for one year, except under the indictment charging conspiracy, where the sentence imposed was two years, to run…