United States ex rel. Jones v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

MARSH, District Judge.

The relator, Play den C. Jones, Jr., filed his petition for “Removal of Cause from State Court” in forma pauperis, alleging that he is illegally incarcerated in the State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh by virtue of illegal sentences imposed by the criminal court of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, at Nos. 167, 168, 413, 414, 415, 416 March Term, 1949.

Accompanying this pleading is a “Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus” directed to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, which was executed and sworn to by relator on April 23, 1963. We gather…