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COM. ex rel. SANTIAGO v. MYERS

419 Pa. 326 (1965)

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

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 9, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miquel Maldonado Santiago, appellant, in propria persona.

William A. Peiffer, Assistant District Attorney, and Edward H. Carney, District Attorney, for appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, November 9, 1965:

The appellant, after indictment and trial, was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree and the sentence was fixed at life imprisonment. Judgment of sentence was entered on October 7, 1963. Subsequently, the appellant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which was dismissed without hearing. In his petition, appellant sets out three issues which he alleges governs the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus...

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