Commonwealth ex rel. Karpinski v. Burke

Opinion by

Carr, J.,

John J. Karpinski, a prisoner in the Eastern State Penitentiary under a sentence of from two and one-half to five years imposed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware County after he had pleaded guilty to an indictment for larceny, appeals from an order of the court below dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus without a hearing.

In his petition for the writ he avers in substance: (1) that following his arrest he was subjected to four hours of intensive questioning; (2) that he was detained for seventeen days before being given a hearing before a…