Commonwealth Ex Rel. Bishop v. Smith, Warden

Per Curiam,

On April 10, 1920, the relator pleaded guilty in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lackawanna County to four separate bills of indictment, drawn by the district attorney, without a finding by the grand jury, (Act of April 15, 1907, P. L. 62), to wit, three bills charging him with having forged three certain checks drawn on Peoples Savings and Dime Bank and Anthracite Trust Company respectively, and one bill charging him with obtaining money by false pretenses. He was sentenced—in one sentence—on the forgery bills to imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary for not less than three…