BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
On May 22, 1926, Joseph Maro was arrested on the charge of murder and manslaughter on the high seas. Later indictments therefor were found against him at the June session of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. That court, by reason of inability to procure attendance of witnesses, was unable to try him at the several terms following, and on February 27, 1927, Maro, who had meanwhile been in prison, petitioned the...
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