COMMONWEALTH EX REL. v. CAVELL

No. 3120.

8 Pa. D. & C. 2d 80 (1956)

Commonwealth ex rel. v. Cavell

Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

August 13, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. C. Boyle, district attorney; W. C. Smith, W. G. Freeland, assistant district attorneys, for respondent.


GRAFF, P. J., (specially presiding), August 13, 1956.

Petitioner filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that he is illegally confined in the Western State Penitentiary. A hearing was had on the matter upon June 28, 1956, and thereafter the petition was dismissed, with no opinion having been filed.

Subsequently thereto petitioner has taken an appeal to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and the following opinion is now to be filed.

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