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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. BURKE

No. 9562.

170 F.2d 413 (1948)

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ex rel. BILLMAN v. BURKE, Warden.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided September 30, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman I. Pollock, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Franklin E. Barr, of Philadelphia, Pa. (John E. Stevenson, Deputy Atty. Gen., T. McKeen Chidsey, Atty. Gen., and John H. Maurer, Dist. Atty., of Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before GOODRICH and KALODNER, Circuit Judges, and FEE, District Judge.

KALODNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal followed in due course1 the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the court below. D.C., 74 F.Supp. 846. The petition was prepared by the petitioner himself; in the wise exercise of his discretion, the learned District Judge permitted him to proceed in forma pauperis, assigned him able counsel who distilled from the petition the single federal question...

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