COMMONWEALTH EX REL. SIMS v. CAVELL

No. 5674.

29 Pa. D. & C. 2d 395 (1963)

Commonwealth ex rel. Sims v. Cavell

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

March 15, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Sims, p. p., relator.

Richard A. Sprague, Assistant District Attorney, for respondent.


SPORKIN, J., March 15, 1963.

This matter came before the court on relator's petition and rule to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not be issued. The rule was returnable before the writer of this opinion on October 26, 1962.

In said petition, relator prayed this court "to vacate sentence . . . or grant new trial", and concluded with the question: "(D)oes a `faux pas' by the defendant's attorney, give said attorney a legal and proper right to enter...

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