Commonwealth Ex Rel. Bryant v. Hendrick

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Eagen,

These appeals are by one Hendrick, Superintendent of the Philadelphia county prisons, from an order entered below granting habeas corpus relief to petitioners, Cephus Bryant [Bryant] and James Goldstein [Goldstein].

Both petitioners alleged that they were confined in Holmesburg Prison under conditions constituting cruel and unusual, treatment, prohibited by the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. At the time, Bryant was confined in Holmesburg in lieu of $3,500 bail while awaiting trial on an indictment charging him with burglary, larceny and…