UNITED STATES v. CAVELL

Habeas Corpus No. 744.

254 F.Supp. 154 (1966)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. George A. OWENS, Petitioner, v. A. C. CAVELL, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, Respondent.

United States District Court M. D. Pennsylvania.

May 24, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George A. Owens, pro se.

Robert W. Duggan, Dist. Atty., Allegheny County, Louis Abromson, Asst. Dist. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., for respondent.


MEMORANDUM

FOLLMER, District Judge.

Petitioner, a prisoner at the State Correctional Institution at Rockview, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, filed this Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, in forma pauperis, in this Court. He makes the following allegation: That he "was forced to sign a statement without benefit of counsel, which was used in court against him," and that the voluntariness of the confession was not...

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