Commonwealth ex rel. Dote v. Burke

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

Relator is confined in tbe Eastern State Penitentiary at Graterford in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, pursuant to sentence imposed by the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Lackawanna County at No. 1, October Term, 1949. The sentence, which was for an indeterminate period of not less than three years nor more than six years, effective June 11, 1949, was imposed on March 17, 1950, upon an indictment charging burglary to which relator had pleaded guilty on June 15, 1949, before Judge Robinson.

The present habeas corpus proceeding is one of a series of similar actions whereby…