COM. ex rel. PATRICK v. BANMILLER


398 Pa. 163 (1960)

Commonwealth ex rel. Patrick, Appellant, v. Banmiller.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 18, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph E. Patrick, appellant, in propria persona.

Arlen Specter and Domenick Vitullo, Assistant District Attorneys, Paul M. Chalfin, First Assistant District Attorney, and Victor H. Blanc, District Attorney, for appellee.

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


OPINION PER CURIAM, January 18, 1960:

The court below discharged the rule granted on respondent to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not issue and dismissed the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and relator appealed.

Relator was adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree on February 11, 1942, and was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment in the Eastern State Penitentiary. On February 2, 1953, after hearing, a writ of habeas corpus was...

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