Commonwealth Ex Rel. Coffman v. Keenan

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

Relator was tried on January 12, 1961, before a judge and a jury on an indictment at No. 16, December Sessions, 1957, charging violation of the Anti-Narcotics Act of July 11, 1917, P.L. 758, as amended, 35 PS §851 et seq. He was found guilty and sentenced to a term of not less than five years nor more than ten years to run concurrently with a sentence he was then serving in the Allegheny County Workhouse on a burglary conviction. Upon expiration of the Workhouse sentence he was transferred to the Western Correctional Diagnostic and Classification Center. His petition…