UNITED STATES v. BRIERLEY

No. 17611.

411 F.2d 910 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. James CROWSON, E-7636, Appellant, v. Joseph R. BRIERLEY, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Philadelphia, Penna.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided June 5, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Crowson, pro se.

Joseph J. Musto, Pittston, Pa., Roger F. Cox, Asst. Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa. (James D. Crawford, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Division, Richard A. Sprague, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before McLAUGHLIN, KALODNER and VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM:

This appeal challenges a District Court order, entered after the grant of a hearing to relator,1 which order denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Relator is confined pursuant to a sentence of life imprisonment imposed September 9, 1957, after entry of a plea of guilty to murder generally and a determination by a state three-judge court that relator was guilty of murder in the first degree...

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