Commonwealth ex rel. Sell v. Tees

Opinion by

Wright, J.,

■ Russell Sell, an inmate of the Eastern State Penitentiary, petitioned the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County for a writ of habeas corpus. The said court entered into a hearing at which Sell was repre*551sented by counsel and testified in person. Subsequently the court filed an opinion and order dismissing the petition. This appeal followed.

The questions presented in appellant’s petition were: (1) whether a single bill of indictment may properly include in separate counts three unrelated charges of burglary and larceny and (2) whether trial and conviction on such a…