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Title: Commonwealth Ex Rel. Holly v. Ashe (Commonwealth
Author : Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Release Date : January 27, 1951
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 77 KB

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The petitioner is confined under sentences imposed upon him by the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Fayette County for certain crimes whereof he was duly convicted. He seeks release from detention on the ground that the courts power to impose sentence had become extinct by prior expiration of the term at which he had been found guilty. The petition was addressed to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, the jurisdiction of the situs of the relators detention, and was by that court refused. On the relators appeal, the Superior Court reversed, one judge dissenting. Because of the public importance of the question for decision, we allowed an appeal on the petition of the district attorney of Fayette County.