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Com. Ex Rel. Swisher v. Ashe, Warden

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 13, 1941No. 160 Misc. DocketPublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Cunningham, J.,

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No facts are in issue in this habeas corpus proceeding. The relator is now confined in the Western Penitentiary by virtue of a commitment upon a sentence, pronounced against him on October 6, 1937, by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County at No. 724 September Sessions, 1937, of “not less than five years or more than ten years” from August 16, 1937, following the rendition against him by a jury of a verdict of guilty under an indictment in which he was charged, along with another, with having attempted to steal a Buiek automobile, the property of one…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. McHaleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1881
  2. Commonwealth of Penna. v. DegrangeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1929
  3. Commonwealth v. FlahertySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
  4. Commonwealth v. OrrisSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1939
  5. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Case v. Smith, WardenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1938

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. MoonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1942
  2. Commonwealth v. CloptonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
  3. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Cox v. Ashe, WardenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  4. Commonwealth v. BellisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  5. United States ex rel. Kennedy v. BurkeCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1949

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