COMMONWEALTH EX REL. v. MARTIN

No. 20.

6 Pa. D. & C. 2d 589 (1955)

Commonwealth ex rel. v. Martin

Common Pleas Court of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.

December 20, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Elder Bryan and Charles F. G. Smith, for relator.

Perry L. Reeher, District Attorney, and Gilbert E. Long, Assistant District Attorney, for Commonwealth.


BRAHAM, P. J., December 20, 1955.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought by Irvin C. Herge who is now confined at the Eastern State Penitentiary under sentence of life imprisonment for murder.

The petition was presented July 20, 1955. An order was at once made fixing July 28, 1955, as the time for hearing. The court was aware at that time that two habeas corpus proceedings had been previously instituted to try to effect the prisoner's release...

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