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COM. ex rel. KETTER v. DAY

181 Pa.Super. 271 (1956)

Commonwealth ex rel. Ketter, Appellant, v. Day.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

July 17, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Ketter, appellant, in propria persona.

Edward C. Boyle, District Attorney and William Claney Smith, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

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

OPINION BY CARR, J., July 17, 1956:

James Ketter, a prisoner in the State Penitentiary at Graterford, appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County refusing a writ of habeas corpus for his discharge from custody. He attacks the validity of his conviction and sentence by the court of Oyer and Terminer of that county on the grounds that he was not given a preliminary hearing before a magistrate, that he was improperly indicted jointly with an...

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