COM. ex rel. STEVENS v. MYERS


398 Pa. 23 (1959)

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

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

December 30, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rayford Stevens, appellant, in propria persona.

J. Harold Hughes, First Assistant District Attorney, and Raymond R. Start, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and McBRIDE, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE McBRIDE, December 30, 1959:

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for habeas corpus by Relator who was convicted of murder in the first degree by a jury which fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. His motions in arrest of judgment and for new trial were denied by the court en banc and he did not appeal. Perhaps his decision not to appeal was sound for had he succeeded he would have again faced the possibility of a death sentence...

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