Commonwealth ex rel. Brown v. Pennsylvania Board of Parole

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

This is an appeal from the refusal by the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County of the relator’s petition for alternative writ of mandamus to compel the Pennsylvania Parole Board and the Superintendent of the Western State Penitentiary to release him from custody because of the alleged expiration of his terms of imprisonment.

The petitioner was sentenced by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County on December 2, 1937, to serve in the Western State Penitentiary terms of not less than two nor more than four years on each of five successive bills of…