Com. Ex Rel. Hennessy v. Smith, Warden

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

Fifty years have gone by since relator started his criminal career and was sentenced to the House of Refuge in Philadelphia for incorrigibility. During that period his record shows twenty-five additional arrests, mostly for larceny, larceny from the person, and receiving stolen goods; fourteen of these cases resulted in convictions, upon which sentences of varying terms in jails and penitentiaries were imposed. On December 10, 1927, he was sentenced in Cumberland County to the Eastern State Penitentiary, on a conviction for larceny from the person, to a term of…