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COMMONWEALTH ex rel. SHEELER v. BURKE

367 Pa. 152 (1951)

Commonwealth ex rel. Sheeler v. Burke.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 29, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis B. Schwartz and Raymond J. Bradley, for Petitioner.

John H. Maurer, District Attorney and James W. Tracey, Jr., First Assistant District Attorney, for Commonwealth.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, March 29, 1951:

Rudolph Sheeler, the relator, filed his original petition with this court for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that he was being illegally restrained of his liberty in the Eastern State Penitentiary as a result of a life sentence imposed upon him by the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Philadelphia County on March 31, 1939, following his plea of guilty to an indictment (No. 574, March Sessions 1939, in said court) charging...

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