Commonwealth v. Francies

Opinion by

Porter, J.,

It appears by the petition of the relator and the records sent up in obedience to the ancillary writs of certiorari, that the relator is confined in the western penitentiary under two commitments, one from the Court of Quarter Sessions of Somerset County and the other from the Court of Quarter Sessions of Center County. The offenses with which the defendant was charged were essentially distinct and the commitments are from courts of independent jurisdiction; we must, therefore, consider separately the validity of the commitments, under which the relator is detained in the…