United States ex rel. Sliva v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

WOOD, District Judge.

The petitioner is presently serving a sentence in the Eastern State Penitentiary at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was tried before a jury and convicted on three bills of indictment containing several counts of robbery, armed robbery, and burglary. The petition states that petitioner is serving a sentence of from thirty to sixty years as a consequence of his conviction on these charges.

Two questions are raised by the petition: (1) Was the petitioner deprived of due process of law by the indictments which contained separate charges of separate crimes? (2) Was the…