UNITED STATES EX REL. LAWSON v. CAVELL

No. 18371.

425 F.2d 1350 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Raymond LAWSON, Appellant, v. A. C. CAVELL, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided May 7, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond Lawson, pro se.

Robert L. Campbell, Asst. Dist. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., (Robert W. Duggan, Dist. Atty. of Allegheny County, Carol Mary Los, Asst. Dist. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.

Before HASTIE, Chief Judge, and MARIS and ADAMS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal by the relator from the denial by the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, without an evidentiary hearing, of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition was based upon alleged errors, which the relator asserted to be of constitutional dimension, in his conviction of murder in the second degree upon his plea of guilty in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania...

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