COMMONWEALTH v. PHILLIPS


208 Pa.Super. 121 (1966)

Commonwealth v. Phillips, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 17, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry L. McNeal, Jr., for appellant.

John T. Miller, First Assistant District Attorney, with him John F. Rauhauser, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before ERVIN, P.J., WRIGHT, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, and SPAULDING, JJ.


OPINION BY JACOBS, J., June 17, 1966:

On August 2, 1965 appellant, Kenneth Phillips, was granted a writ of habeas corpus by the Court of Common Pleas of York County. The basis for issuing the writ was the fact that he was unrepresented by counsel and did not intelligently waive counsel at the time of a 1955 guilty plea and sentencing on three bills of indictment for robbery, burglary and prison breach. The court directed that the defendant stand trial on the three...

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