UNITED STATES v. MYERS

Misc. No. 2780.

240 F.Supp. 384 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Thomas McCODE v. David N. MYERS, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, Pennsylvania.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 8, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. McSorley, (Court appointed), McSorley, Purcell & McSorley, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

James C. Crumlish, Jr., Dist. Atty. of Philadelphia County, Gordon Gelfond, Asst. Dist. Atty. of Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


GRIM, District Judge.

In a habeas corpus petition filed in this court, relator, a state prisoner, contended that his constitutional rights had been violated by:

(1) the alleged denial of assistance of counsel at his preliminary hearing on a charge of murder in 1947 and at the subsequent coroner's hearing (2) the alleged systematic exclusion of negroes from the grand jury that indicted him (3) the alleged introduction into evidence of the...

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