OPINION BY WRIGHT, J., January 17, 1956:
George Clawson, an inmate of the Western State Penitentiary, presented to the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The District Attorney filed an answer, to which the petitioner filed a "rebuttal". Thereafter the court entered a decree dismissing the petition. This appeal followed.
The record discloses that, on September 1, 1953, appellant was tried before a jury on a...
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