Commonwealth v. Arbach

Gordon, Jr., J.,

The district attorney opposes this

application for parole under the Act of June 19, 1911, P. L. 1059, on the ground that we are without power to grant it. On September 26, 1932, we sentenced the prisoner to the county prison, on a charge of burglary, to not less than 2i nor more than 10 years. His minimum sentence will not expire, therefore, until March 26, 1935. This fact, however, would not prevent our paroling the prisoner now, for it was decided in the case of Commonwealth v. Renya, 91 Pa. Superior Ct. 90, that a parole could be granted to a prisoner who had not completed…