Commonwealth Rel. Foster v. Ashe, Warden

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

Petition for writ of habeas corpus. Rule to show cause granted. See Com. v. Curry, 285 Pa. 289, 298-9, 132 A. 370.

The relator is confined in the Western State Penitentiary pursuant to a sentence of life imprisonment imposed on him on October 11, 1932, by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Erie County, Pennsylvania, following an information filed by the district attorney of said county on April 29, 1932 under the provisions of section 4 of the Act of April 29, 1929, P. L. 854, charging him with having been previously convicted more than four times (reciting them) of…