COM. ex rel. GOODFELLOW v. RUNDLE.


415 Pa. 528 (1964)

Commonwealth ex rel. Goodfellow, Appellant, v. Rundle.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Goodfellow, appellant, in propria persona.

Thomas A. Pitt, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, and A. Alfred Delduco, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, November 10, 1964:

Thomas Goodfellow, without counsel, was sentenced in 1959 to imprisonment for prison breach and larceny. The sentences followed pleas of guilty to both charges. In 1963, Goodfellow sought a writ of habeas corpus alleging that absence of counsel at the 1959 guilty pleas and sentencings deprived him of his liberty without due process of law. The court of common pleas denied the writ after argument, but without a hearing...

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