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COM. ex rel. CANNON v. MARONEY

419 Pa. 461 (1965)

Commonwealth ex rel. Cannon, Appellant, v. Maroney.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 23, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hymen Schlesinger, with him M.Y. Steinberg, Henry Mustin, Walter T. McGough, and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for appellant.

Edwin J. Martin, Assistant District Attorney, with him Robert W. Duggan, District Attorney, for appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, November 23, 1965:

This is an appeal from the Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County dismissing without a hearing the petition of James Cannon for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

Cannon shot and killed Charles Williams in a bar on April 13, 1949. For several years thereafter, he was a fugitive from justice. He was finally apprehended, and convicted of murder in the first...

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