Commonwealth ex rel. Gant v. Banmiller

Opinion by

Rhodes, P.J.,

Relator has appealed from the order of Judge Waters dismissing his petition for writ of habeas corpus. On September 28, 1948, relator pleaded guilty to bills of indictment charging the commission of seventeen burglaries and related offenses. On January 13, 1949, sentence was suspended on all bills except at No. 838, September Term, 1948, on which bill he was sentenced by Judge McDevitt to serve a term of not less than ten years nor more than twenty years in the Eastern State Penitentiary, now the State Correctional Institution at Philadelphia.

Relator’s first petition…