Criminal law — Sentence to imprisonment in Pennsylvania Industrial School — Subsequent transfer to Western State Penitentiary — Validity of transfer.
In this habeas corpus proceeding in which it appeared that the relator had pleaded guilty to an indictment for murder in the perpetration of a robbery and had been adjudged guilty of murder of the first degree; that at the time of sentence the relator was a minor and was sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment in the Pennsylvania Industrial School at Camp Hill for the term of his natural life; and that two years later by order of the Secretary of Welfare the prisoner was transferred to the Western State Penitentiary, it was Held, that the transfer was legal and that the court below had properly dismissed the petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
OPINION PER CURIAM, April 20, 1957:
The order appealed from is affirmed on the opinion of Judge GRAFF, specially presiding in the court below.