Commonwealth Ex Rel. Crist v. Price

Opinion bx

Justice Alpern,

This case comes before the court on appeal from the order of the court below denying the petition of Clifton Crist for a writ of habeas corpus in an extradition proceeding. It is claimed that the requisition pa pers do not satisfy the requirements of the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act of July 8, 1941, P. L. 288, 19 PS §191.1 et seq.

On July 14, 1959 the appellant Crist pleaded guilty in Tennessee to burglary and was sentenced to three years, the sentence to begin on the expiration of a sentence he was then serving in Leavenworth. Upon his release from Leavenworth he…