Commonwealth v. Harradine

Opinion by

Keller, P,. J.,

William Harradine, having been found guilty of assault with intent to rape, was sentenced by the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Erie County to imprisonment in the Western State Penitentiary, by separate or solitary imprisonment at labor, for an indefinite term, to be computéd from February 17, 1940, of not less than two years nor more than four years.

On March 17, 1941, pursuant to the Act of July 11, 1923, P. L. 1044 1 , authorizing the transfer, by reason of overcrowded conditions,. etc., of prisoners confined in any penitentiary, prison, etc., to another- prison,…