COM. ex rel. LEWIS v. KEENAN


195 Pa.Super. 188 (1961)

Commonwealth ex rel. Lewis, Appellant, v. Keenan.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Blumenfield, with him Albert Martin, for appellant.

William Claney Smith, Assistant District Attorney, with him Edward C. Boyle, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ. (RHODES, P.J., absent).


OPINION BY WOODSIDE, J., June 15, 1961:

This is an appeal from the refusal of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County to grant a writ of habeas corpus to a prisoner, who had been sentenced to a term of 5 to 10 years on a charge of violating the Drug Act of July 11, 1917, P.L. 758, as amended.

The prisoner was sentenced on May 2, 1956, under § 12 of the above act which, as amended by the Act...

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