Commonwealth ex rel. v. Johnston
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
April T., 1902, No. 1. Petition for rule for habeas corpus in case of Commonwealth ex rel. Alexander Bergman v. William Mc.O. Johnston, Warden of the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
It appears by the petition and answer that the petitioner is *242now confined in the western penitentiary by virtue of commitments in execution of judgments ,of the court of quarter sessions of Allegheny county upon three several indictments’, laid on different days, each of which charged that the petitioner “ with force and arms, feloniously did wilfully and maliciously enter the building of the Carnegie Steel Company, an association of limited partnership under the laws of this state, there situate, with intent to commit a felony in said building, contrary to the form,”…
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