Commonwealth ex rel. Johnson v. Shovlin

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

This is an appeal by Ernest Calvin Johnson, the relator, from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County refusing relator’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release from Far-view State Hospital.

The relator was convicted of the crime of armed robbery at No. 28, February Sessions, 1943, Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny County, and sentenced by Judge Dithrich on February 24, 1943, to a term of not less than five years nor more than ten years in the Western State Penitentiary. Being of the opinion that relator should be cared for in…