UNITED STATES EX REL. STOKES v. RUNDLE

No. 17712.

411 F.2d 609 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Robert STOKES, H-2279, Appellant, v. Alfred T. RUNDLE, Superintendent.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided June 2, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goncer M. Krestal, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Vram Nedurian, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Media, Pa. (Ralph B. D'Iorio, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Division, William R. Toal, Jr., First Asst. Dist. Atty., Stephen J. McEwen, Jr., Dist. Atty., Media, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before McLAUGHLIN, KALODNER and VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

Appellant here pleaded guilty to a charge of murder generally and was convicted of second degree murder in a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Court on October 9, 1962. There was no direct appeal from the judgment of conviction. In 1966 he proceeded under the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Act, alleging that his confession was involuntary. The state Supreme Court remanded the case to the trial court for hearing as to that claim...

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