COMMONWEALTH EX REL. BOWEN v. BANMILLER

No. 59.

23 Pa. D. & C. 2d 633 (1960)

Commonwealth ex rel. Bowen v. Banmiller

Common Pleas Court of Berks County, Pennsylvania.

November 26, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Bowen, p. p., for relator.

Frederick O. Brubaker, District Attorney, Peter F. Cianci, Assistant District Attorney, for respondent.


READINGER, J., November 26, 1960.

Robert E. Bowen petitions the court for a writ of habeas corpus. He avers that he was taken into custody at Reading on September 10, 1959, and committed to the Berks County Prison on a charge of arson; that on November 5, 1959, he was brought before the Berks County court to answer this charge; that in ignorance and without counsel he signed the bill of indictment entering a plea of guilty, and, further, that throughout the proceedings...

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