COM. ex rel. SWIGER v. MARONEY


420 Pa. 34 (1966)

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

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bacil Swiger, appellant, in propria persona.

William R. Balph, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, and Kenneth E. Fox, Jr., District Attorney, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, January 4, 1966:

On September 11, 1952, the appellant, Bacil Swiger, while represented by counsel, plead guilty generally to an indictment charging him with the crime of murder. After a hearing of three days' duration, the court adjudged him guilty of murder in the first degree, and on November 5, 1952, imposed a sentence of life imprisonment. No appeal from the judgment was entered.

On February 8, 1965, Swiger instituted an action...

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