UNITED STATES EX REL SHAFFER v. CAVELL

Civ. 67-1341.

276 F.Supp. 592 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Joseph Lee SHAFFER, Jr. v. Angelo C. CAVELL, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview.

United States District Court W. D. Pennsylvania.

November 22, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Lee Shaffer, Jr., C-8459, pro se.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MARSH, District Judge.

The relator, Joseph Lee Shaffer, Jr., alleges that he pleaded guilty to three charges of larceny and is serving the sentences pronounced by the criminal court of Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

He has applied to this federal court for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that he is being held in custody unlawfully on the grounds that (1) his court-appointed counsel was incompetent in that the only time the petitioner...

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