Commonwealth Ex Rel. Sharpe v. Burke

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

On March 9, 1939, relator was tried and convicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Philadelphia County on three bills of indictment (Nos. 576, 578, 580, December Sessions, 1938) charging robbery, burglary, and carrying concealed deadly weapons. The sentence on bill No. 576 (armed robbery) was for a term of imprisonment in the Eastern State Penitentiary of not less than ten years nor more than twenty years. At that time relator was on parole from a sentence of not less than one year nor more than twenty years to be served in the Philadelphia County Prison. The…