COM. ex rel. JOHNSON v. SHOVLIN


201 Pa.Super. 331 (1963)

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

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 13, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest Calvin Johnson, appellant, in propria persona.

William Claney Smith, Assistant District Attorney, and Edward C. Boyle, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ.


OPINION BY RHODES, P.J., June 13, 1963:

This is an appeal by Ernest Calvin Johnson, the relator, from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County refusing relator's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release from Farview State Hospital.

The relator was convicted of the crime of armed robbery at No. 28, February Sessions, 1943, Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny County...

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