United States ex rel. Huggins v. Commonwealth

GOURLEY, Chief Judge.

This proceeding relates to a habeas corpus action based on a sentence imposed by a State court in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Petitioner was sentenced in 1924 by the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to two consecutive terms of imprisonment, each term for seven and one-half to fifteen years.

Petitioner contends that he has been denied due process because the prison authorities illegally added his two sentences together and entered them as one sentence of fifteen to thirty years. He contends that the lumping together of two consecutive…