Commonwealth Ex Rel. Dermendzin v. Myers

Opinion by

Me. Chief Justice Jones,

This appeal from an order of tlie court below, dismissing the relator’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, questions whether the relator was duly sen-1,enced for the crime whereof he was convicted. A writ of habeas corpus is the appropriate means for testing the legality of a sentence imposed upon a convict. See Halderman’s Case, 53 Pa. Superior Ct. 554; Commonwealth ex rel. Flory v. Ashe, 132 Pa. Superior Ct. 405, 1 A. 2d 685.

On March 27, 1954, Charles N. Dermendziu, the relator, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of…