COMMONWEALTH ex rel. v. MYERS


402 Pa. 451 (1961)

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

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 16, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Ellsworth Johnson, appellant, in propria persona.

John A.F. Hall, Assistant District Attorney, and Martin H. Lock, District Attorney, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BOK, January 16, 1961:

Relator, forty-seven years old, filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The court below denied it and he has appealed.

He was tried on March 17, 1958, before a jury in Dauphin County on a charge of murder. Having been found guilty of that in the second degree, he was given a sentence of from ten to twenty years. The victim was his paramour, and he did her to death...

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