Legal Opinion
Commonwealth Ex Rel. Sawchak v. Ashe
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 26, 1951No. 215, Miscellaneous DocketPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rhodes, P. J.,
Relator, William Sawchak, in his petition for writ of habeas corpus filed in this Court, averred that he was unlawfully detained in the Western State Penitentiary under sentences imposed on void indictments. The sentences which had been imposed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Bedford County on October 16, 1944, aggregated not less than nine and one-half years nor more than nineteen years.
Relator entered pleas of guilty to four separate bills of indictment, Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 5, December Sessions, 1944, Bedford County,. charging him and a codefendant with assault and…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Uveges v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. AsheSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
- Quicksall v. MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Commonwealth v. GuidaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Milewski v. AsheSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1949
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Commonwealth v. OlsenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
- Commonwealth v. WojciechowskiSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1981
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Yeschenko v. KeenanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1955
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Tyson v. DaySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1956
- Commonwealth v. TaylorSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1960
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