Commonwealth ex rel. Peiffer v. Banmiller

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This appeal is from the refusal of the Court of Common Pleas of Lebanon County to issue a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant, Russell A. Peiffer,1 is serving a total of 6 to 12 years in the State Correctional Institution at Philadelphia on sentences imposed in Lebanon County on five charges of burglary and one of armed robbery. He was also sentenced in Lancaster and Cumberland Counties for offenses committed in those counties.

The police arrested Peiffer in his home where they found him with a revolver on his person. They entered his kitchen with drawn revolvers after…