COM. ex rel. MURRAY v. KEENAN


186 Pa.Super. 107 (1958)

Commonwealth ex rel. Murray v. Keenan (et al., Appellant).

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

April 16, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Claney Smith, Assistant District Attorney, with him Edward C. Boyle, District Attorney, for appellant.

Marjorie Hanson Matson, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY WOODSIDE, J., April 16, 1958:

William J. Murray was convicted by a jury of violating the Narcotics Act of July 11, 1917, P.L. 758, as amended, 35 PS § 851 et seq. and on April 12, 1956, was sentenced by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County to five years in the Allegheny County Workhouse. He did not appeal.

October 30, 1956, he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, which petitions...

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