Poindexter v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Petitioner was serving a sentence of five-to-twenty years at the State Correctional Institution at Grater-ford with a recomputed minimum sentence date of September 22, 1976 and maximum date of September 22, 1991, when he was assigned to the Philadelphia Community Treatment Center.1 He absconded from the Center on December 27, 1975.

In August of 1976, he was arrested and charged with escape and several other offenses. The prosecu*185tion withdrew the other charges without prejudice in January of 1977, and, on March 15, 1977, the court dismissed the charge of escape pursuant to…