Commonwealth Ex Rel. Murray v. Ashe, Warden

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

The court records brought before us in this proceeding disprove the important averments of fact contained in the relator’s petition for writ of habeas corpus.(1) The relator was not given a “lumping” sentence of twenty to forty years imprisonment on four bills of indictment. While, because of an erroneous practice of the penitentiary authorities, (see Com. ex rel. Lynch v. Ashe, 320 Pa. 341, 182 A. 229) the sentence may have been so entered on the boohs of the penitentiary, actually, four consecutive sentences of imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than five…