Legal Opinion

Commonwealth Ex Rel. Hill v. Burke

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 15, 1949No. 73, Miscellaneous Docket 6PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

The relator in this habeas corpus application, over a period of eight years, accumulated an aggregate of eleven indeterminate sentences, some consecutive and others concurrent, imposed by the courts of three different counties upon three separate occasions. Of these the last was a sentence to serve not less than two nor more than four years in the Eastern State Penitentiary, commencing at expiration of sentence which relator was serving, imposed September 23, 1943, by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montgomery County, as of No. 7-1; September Sessions, 1943, for the crime of…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Lycett v. Ashe, WardenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  2. Commonwealth Ex Rel. McGinnis v. AsheSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  3. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Pyeatte v. Burke, WardenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1945
  4. Com. Ex Rel. Dorillo v. Smith, WardenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  5. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Harding v. SmithSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1940

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Ambrek v. ClarkDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1968
  2. Commonwealth Ex Rel. McDevitt v. BurkeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1949
  3. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Tyson v. DaySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1956
  4. Commonwealth ex rel. Rogers v. HarrisSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1956
  5. Commonwealth v. MeiseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1973

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