UNITED STATES v. BURKE

Misc. No. 1344.

93 F.Supp. 490 (1950)

UNITED STATES ex rel. MAYO v. BURKE.

United States District Court. E. D. Pennsylvania.

April 12, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. G. Smith, Joseph N. Bongiovanni, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioner.

Henry M. Hipple, Lock Haven, Pa., for respondent.


KIRKPATRICK, Chief Judge.

The relator, Harry Mayo, is serving a life term for murder. He was convicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Clinton County, Pennsylvania, on February 13, 1935, of killing a policeman in the city of Lock Haven on August 22, 1934. He petitioned this Court for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that a confession which was put in evidence at his trial had been obtained under circumstances which made its use a violation of the Due Process...

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