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COM. ex rel. STEVENS v. MYERS

419 Pa. 1 (1965)

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

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

September 29, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rayford G. Stevens, appellant, in propria persona.

Ralph B. D'Iorio, Assistant District Attorney, Domenic D. Jerome, First Assistant District Attorney, and Jacques H. Fox, District Attorney, for appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, September 29, 1965:

This appeal questions the correctness of the dismissal, without hearing, of a 1963 petition for a writ of habeas corpus contesting a 1954 murder conviction.

After appellant-petitioner Stevens' 1954 jury trial resulted in a verdict of murder in the first degree on a felony-murder charge, the trial judge imposed a sentence of life imprisonment. Stevens, represented by court appointed counsel at trial, took...

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