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COMMONWEALTH EX REL. O'DONNELL v. PRASSE

84 Pa. D. & C. 306 (1952)

Commonwealth ex rel. O'Donnell v. Prasse

Common Pleas Court of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

October 30, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George I. Puhak and Jacob M. Goodyear, for petitioner.

Clinton R. Weidner, District Attorney of Cumberland County, Louis G. Feldman, District Attorney of Luzerne County, and Frank P. Lawley, Jr., Assistant Deputy Attorney General, for Commonwealth.

SHEELY, P.J., (forty-first judicial district, specially presiding), October 30, 1952.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that John David Johnson O'Donnell is "unjustly held and detained in custody by Arthur T. Prasse, Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Industrial School at Camp Hill" and that petitioner "was not committed for any criminal or supposed criminal matter." A rule was issued to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not issue...

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