Commonwealth Ex Rel. Madden v. Ashe

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

Relator seeks a review of the action of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County in dismissing relator’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. Relator had pleaded guilty in the Court of Oyer & Terminer and Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County to eleven bills of indictment (Nos. 1083 to 1094, June Sessions, 1938), and was sentenced by that court upon seven of them (Nos. 1083 to 1089) to consecutive terms of imprisonment in the Eastern State Penitentiary which aggregated not less than twenty-five years nor more than fifty years from June 28,1938.…