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COM. ex rel. KNOWLES v. RUNDLE

419 Pa. 300 (1965)

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

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

October 13, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Knowles, appellant, in propria persona.

Gordon Gelfond and Joseph M. Smith, Assistant District Attorneys, F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Jr., First Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, October 13, 1965:

In 1946, appellant-petitioner was convicted of murder in the first degree by a three-judge court following a hearing on a plea of guilty to the general charge of murder. He challenged this conviction by a petition for a writ of habeas corpus which was dismissed without hearing.

At the plea proceedings, at which time petitioner was represented by counsel, a confession made by petitioner was introduced without...

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