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COM. ex rel. DIXON v. JOHNSTON

188 Pa.Super. 595 (1959)

Commonwealth ex rel. Dixon, Appellant, v. Johnston.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

March 18, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Dixon, appellant, in propria persona.

Joseph S. Ammerman, District Attorney, and Eugene G. Kitko, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, ERVIN, and WATKINS, JJ.

OPINION BY WOODSIDE, J., March 18, 1959:

This is an appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Clearfield County dismissing the petition of a prisoner for a writ of habeas corpus brought against the warden of the State Penitentiary at Rockview.

The petitioner, James Dixon, was sentenced in Clearfield County for a term of 1 to 10 years in the Western State Penitentiary beginning September 12, 1947. At the expiration of his minimum sentence on September...

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