TORRANCE v. SALZINGER

No. 13685.

297 F.2d 902 (1962)

James F. TORRANCE, Appellant, v. Joseph SALZINGER, Warden of the Dauphin County Prison, and Wesley M. Barrick, Sheriff of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided January 10, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert W. Helwig, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant.

Huette F. Dowling, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa. (Martin H. Lock, Dist. Atty. of Dauphin County, William Lipsitt, Harrisburg, Pa., Alfred P. Filippone, Deputy Atty. Gen., Anne X. Alpern, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellees.

Before GOODRICH, McLAUGHLIN and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by a state prisoner, James Torrance, from a federal district court's denial of his application for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner is confined pursuant to sentences imposed by a Pennsylvania court upon convictions of misbehavior in public office and conspiracy to defraud the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. The charges grew out of contracts entered into by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, of which petitioner was a...

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