Commonwealth Ex Rel. Mayernick v. Ashe, Warden

Per Curiam,

An examination of the records, sent up with the answers to the rule granted on relator’s petition for writ of habeas corpus, shows the following: On April 6, 1939, the relator was sentenced in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County (No. 173 April Sessions, 1939) to undergo imprisonment at separate and solitary confinement at labor in the Western Penitentiary for not less than five years nor more than ten years, effective as of March 21, 1939. No indictment had been found against relator, but sentence was purportedly imposed under the provisions of the Act of April 15,…