Commonwealth Ex Rel. De Poe v. Ashe

Per Curiam,

A petition for writ of habeas corpus is- not a substitute for an appeal. Consequently, the order of the-Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County dismissing relator’s petition and refusing a writ of habeas corpus will be affirmed.

Relator was convicted by a jury of sodomy and attempted statutory rape, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny County, on bills of indictment charging him with sodomy and statutory rape. Relator was sentenced by the court on June 28, 1948, on bill No. 86, October Sessions, 1947, for sodomy, to undergo imprisonment in the Western State Penitentiary…