Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Watson v. Commonwealth & Common Pleas Court of Pennsylvania
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided November 15, 1966No. Misc. 3385PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
JOSEPH S. LORD, III, District Judge. On April 15, 1948, relator was sentenced by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County to a term of ten to twenty years upon conviction of burglary, larceny and receiving stolen goods. He was twice paroled, and for crimes committed while on parole, he was sentenced to three to eight years on March 6, 1964, and to one to two years on May 28, 1964. All the sentences were to run consecutively. On February 4, 1966, we granted relator’s petition for habeas corpus as to the 1948 sentence. United States ex rel. Watson v. Myers, 250 F.Supp. 292…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- United States of America Ex Rel. Alvin R. Drew v. David N. Myers, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, PennsylvaniaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1964
- Patton v. State of North CarolinaDistrict Court, W.D. North Carolina · 1966
- Thomas Ribble Tucker, Jr. v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1966
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Ulmer v. RundleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1966
- United States of America Ex Rel. Ed Eugene Jones v. Elbert v. Nash, Warden, Missouri State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1959
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3Cited by17 opinions
- United States of America Ex Rel. Joseph A. Di Rienzo v. State of New JerseyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970
- State v. CrockrellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1971
- Meeks v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1974
- Kelly v. State of North CarolinaDistrict Court, E.D. North Carolina · 1967
- Mize v. United StatesDistrict Court, N.D. Mississippi · 1971
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