Com. Ex Rel. Moore v. Ashe, Warden

Opinion by

Me. Justice Maxey,

Paul Moore, the relator, became an inmate of the Western State Penitentiary on May 7, 1938, under sentence imposed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland County on six separate charges of forgery. The first three sentences were from 2% to 5 years and were to run consecutively. The last three sentences were from 2% to 5 years but were to run concurrently with the third sentence. Relator asks for his release from imprisonment because the requirements of the Act of April 15, 1907, P. L. 62, had not been complied with before sentences were imposed upon him.…