Commonwealth ex rel. Phillips v. Myers

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This is an appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Clearfield County refusing a writ of habeas corpus sought by a prisoner now being detained in the State Correctional Institution at Graterford.

The prisoner was transferred to Graterford from the Pennsylvania Industrial School at Camp Hill, to which he was sentenced on July 29, 1958, after pleading guilty to the charge of Receiving Stolen Goods. The prisoner was only 17 years of age at the time of this *504sentence, but because of a long history of serious delinquency and prior commitments to institutions,…