Commonwealth ex rel. Smythe v. Rundle

Sporkin, J.,

This matter came before the court on a petition by relator Charles Smythe, for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain his release from the Eastern State Correctional Institution at Philadelphia, where he is serving a sentence of seven and one-half to fifteen years.

*543The record discloses that relator, Charles Smythe, came to trial before the Honorable Harold D. Saylor, Specially Presiding, and a jury, on March 26, 1962, on eleven bills of indictment, nos. 1411 through 1421 inclusive, May sessions, 1961.1 Relator was convicted on five bills: bill no. 1412, charging incest; bill no. 1414,…