Commonwealth Ex Rel. Dugan v. Ashe, Warden

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

This is an appeal by a convict under sentence of life imprisonment — imposed pursuant to the Act of April 29, 1929, P. L. 854, 1 — from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County dismissing his petition for discharge from confinement on a writ of habeas corpus.

He had previously presented two such petitions to the Supreme Court of this Commonwealth, 338 Pa. 541, 13 A. 2d 523, and 342 Pa. 77, 19 A. 2d 461, and following the refusal of that court to discharge him on the second petition, he applied to the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of…