Commonwealth v. Vladyka

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

Michael Vladyka was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment in April of 1931. In June of 1960, Vladyka’s minimum sentence was commuted and in March of 1961 he was paroled. In July of 1961 Vladyka was returned to prison as a technical parole violator. In December of 1964 he was reparoled, but in August of 1965 he was returned again to prison as a technical parole violator.

In October of 1966 Vladyka filed what he labeled a “petition to vacate sentence” in the Carbon County *605Court. That court treated Vladyka’s petition as coming…