UNITED STATES v. BURKE

No. 10803.

200 F.2d 616 (1952)

UNITED STATES ex rel. MacBLAIN v. BURKE.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided December 16, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David MacBlain, pro se.

Robert E. Woodside, Atty. Gen. of Pa., for appellee.

Before McLAUGHLIN, KALODNER and STALEY, Circuit Judges.


STALEY, Circuit Judge.

Acting as his own lawyer, petitioner appeals from a denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking release from Pennsylvania confinement.

Petitioner was sentenced in 1926 by the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, to two consecutive terms of imprisonment, one for seven and one-half to fifteen years and the other for five to ten years. In 1936, the minimum portion of his first sentence was commuted...

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