Case Name: UNITED STATES ex rel. CARMELO v. BURKE
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1949-01-12
Citations: 172 F.2d 213
Docket Number: No. 9784
Parties: UNITED STATES ex rel. CARMELO v. BURKE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 172
Pages: 213–213

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES ex rel. CARMELO v. BURKE.
No. 9784.
United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 10, 1948.
Decided Jan. 12, 1949.
John P. Carmelo, pro se.
John E. Stevenson, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee.
Before BIGGS, Chief Judge, and MCLAUGHLIN and O’CONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The appellant has appealed from an order of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denying him a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant is presently serving a sentence imposed upon him by a Pennsylvania state court and is confined in the Eastern State Penitentiary at Philadelphia. His principal contention is that the Act of May 28, 1937, P.L. 1036, 19 P.S.Pa. § 894, 895 and 896, repealed or modified Section 10 of the Act of 1911, as amended, 61 P.S.Pa. § 305.
The contention is disposed of unfavorably to the appellant by the decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in Commonwealth v. Smith, 151 Pa.Super. 265, 30 A.2d 347. No mandate of the Constitution of the United States or that of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has been breached by the sentence imposed upon the appellant and of which he complains.
Accordingly the order of the court below will be affirmed.