Commonwealth ex rel. Clawges v. Claudy

Opinion by

Wright, J.,

On January 30, 1943, the relator, then nineteen years of age, pleaded guilty in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Butler County to an indictment charging burglary. He received a general sentence to the Pennsylvania Industrial School at Camp Hill under the provisions of §6 of the Act of 1887, P. L. 63, as last amended by the Act of 1951, P. L. 974, 61 P.S. §485. This statute originally applied to the institution at Huntingdon, but was made applicable to the institution at Camp Hill by the Act of 1937, P. L. 1944, 61 P.S. §545.

On August 7, 1943, on petition of the Parole…