Commonwealth ex rel. Garrison v. Burke

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

Relator, Milton Garrison, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County. A hearing was had on the petition, relator appeared and testified, and after the petition was denied and the writ refused, he appealed to this Court. ;

Relator is now serving a term of not less than two nor more than four years in the Eastern State Penitentiary for the crime of burglary. He was tried and convicted for that crime before a judge and jury in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Bucks County. Sentence was imposed on January 29, 1953, to be computed…