Commonwealth ex rel. Alexander v. Rundle

Opinion by

Montgomery, J.,

Following the filing of a per curiam order remanding this case to the lower court with instructions to conduct a hearing on relator’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, we granted the District Attorney’s petition for reconsideration and permitted the parties to file additional briefs. The District Attorney exercised this right but the relator did not.

Belator is presently serving a sentence of not less than eight years nor more than twenty years in the State Correctional Institution at Philadelphia, imposed in 1955, for various crimes including aggravated robbery…