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COM. ex rel. JOYNER v. BRIERLEY

429 Pa. 156 (1968)

Commonwealth ex rel. Joyner, Appellant, v. Brierley.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 15, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Joyner, appellant, in propria persona.

Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, March 15, 1968:

This is an appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, dismissing appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We have here another case in which the voluntariness of a confession is attacked.1 We dealt with this question at length in Commonwealth ex rel. Butler v. Rundle, 429 Pa. 141,

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