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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. CAVELL

Nos. 590, 630.

244 F.Supp. 560 (1965)

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ex rel. Charles E. WHITING, Petitioner, v. A. C. CAVELL, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Bellefonte, Pa., Respondent (two cases).

United States District Court Middle District Pennsylvania.

June 30, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur B. LaFrance, Harrisburg, Pa., for petitioner.

Richard A. Devlin, Asst. Dist. Atty., Norristown, Pa., for respondent.

SHERIDAN, Chief Judge.

Petitioner, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Rockview, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, filed two petitions for a writ of habeas corpus, which have been consolidated for disposition. They question the legality of petitioner's confinement under a sentence of life imprisonment for the 1956 murder of one Juan C. Otero.

The first petition, filed to No. 590 Habeas Corpus, raised several issues, but there was a misunderstanding...

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