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UNITED STATES EX REL. FEAR v. COMMONWEALTH OF PA.

No. 18106.

423 F.2d 55 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. James Hoey FEAR, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Alfred T. Rundle, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, Pennsylvania.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 11, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Hoey Fear, pro se.

Leroy S. Zimmerman, Dist. Atty., Harrisburg, Pa. (Jerome T. Foerster, Asst. Dist. Atty., Harrisburg, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before FORMAN, SEITZ and ADAMS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

Once again we are called upon to consider an appeal from a prisoner convicted in a state court proceeding on the basis of a guilty plea who now contends that such plea was not entered intelligently and with an understanding of what it meant or its consequences.

Relator pleaded guilty on May 23, 1960 before the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania to charges of robbery and larceny of a motor...

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