Commonwealth ex rel. Gilson v. Keenan

Mook, P. J.,

This petition for writ of habeas corpus was filed by Virgil Gilson who was sentenced by the Court of Quarter Sessions of *71Crawford County on five separate indictments of making a check with intent to defraud. Defendant pleaded guilty to each indictment' on September 10, 1956, and on September 24, 1956, he was sentenced on each indictment to undergo imprisonment in the Allegheny County Work House for a minimum term of six months and a maximum term of one year. The sentences were to run consecutively.

In his petition for writ of habeas corpus petitioner avers that the sentences have…