COMMONWEALTH EX REL. COHEN v. BURKE, WARDEN


75 Pa. D. & C. 72 (1950)

Commonwealth ex rel. Cohen v. Burke, Warden

Common Pleas Court of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

November 14, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Cohen, petitioner, pp.

J. Stroud Weber, district attorney, for Commonwealth.


KNIGHT, P.J., November 14, 1950.

Relator, a prisoner in the Graterford Branch of the Eastern State Penitentiary, filed, on October 19, 1950, a petition praying that a writ of habeas corpus be awarded, directed to the warden of the Eastern State Penitentiary, commanding him to produce relator in court, and show cause why he is restrained of his liberty.

On this petition a rule was allowed upon the Pennsylvania...

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