UNITED STATES v. COMMONWEALTH COURT OF DAUPHIN COUNTY

No. 18377.

453 F.2d 1254 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Patrick J. HUFFMAN, Appellant, v. The COMMONWEALTH COURT OF DAUPHIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided January 3, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Huffman, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant.

Peter W. Brown, Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., (Leonard Packel, Deputy Atty. Gen., J. Shane Creamer, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellees.

Before GANEY, ADAMS and MAX ROSENN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM:

Petitioner in this application for habeas corpus seeks to challenge the constitutionality of 61 P.S. § 331.21a, which confers on the Board of Parole of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania authority to recommit a convicted parole violator to serve the remainder of his sentence without credit for the time spent on parole.1

The district court did not reach the merits of petitioner's contentions...

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