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COM. ex rel. COLWELL v. MYERS

182 Pa.Super. 256 (1956)

Commonwealth ex rel. Colwell, Appellant, v. Myers.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

November 13, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Colwell, appellant, in propria persona.

Victor H. Blanc, District Attorney, James N. Lafferty, Deputy District Attorney, Thomas Shiomos, Thomas M. Reed and Christopher F. Edley, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, ERVIN, and CARR, JJ.

OPINION PER CURIAM, November 13, 1956:

The relator was tried before Judge VINCENT A. CARROLL and a jury on a bill of indictment charging him with armed robbery. He was found guilty and was sentenced by Judge CARROLL on October 11, 1954 to a term of imprisonment from 5 to 10 years in the Eastern State Penitentiary. The relator neither sought a new trial nor took an appeal. On his present petition for habeas corpus filed on February 9, 1956, the writ was awarded but...

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