Commonwealth Ex Rel. Westwood v. Gackenbach

Per Curiam,

This is an appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County dismissing relator’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Relator is presently confined in the Northampton County Prison. See Act of May 10,1871, P. L. 706.

Upon entering pleas of guilty to a number of indictments charging burglary and larceny (Nos. 104, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 142, 143, September Term, 1941), the relator Samuel Westwood, Jr., was sentenced to imprisonment in the Northampton County Prison for a term of not less than four years nor more than eight years, the sentences being…