UNITED STATES v. MYERS

Misc. No. 2790.

276 F.Supp. 748 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Edwin W. GOCKLEY v. David N. MYERS, Superintendent.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

November 28, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Robert Fiebach, Philadelphia, Pa., for relator.

Ralph J. Althouse, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Reading, Pa., for respondent.


OPINION

LUONGO, District Judge.

Edwin W. Gockley was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced by the state court to not less than 10 nor more than 20 years imprisonment. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed the conviction. Commonwealth v. Gockley, 411 Pa. 437, 192 A.2d 693 (1963). After exhausting state remedies, Gockley filed the instant habeas corpus petition on August 7, 1964, in which he charged that his...

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