UNITED STATES EX REL. CHALFONTE v. RUNDLE

Misc. No. 69-255.

332 F.Supp. 30 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Edwin Blaine CHALFONTE v. Alfred T. RUNDLE, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, Pa.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

August 25, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Brown, David Rudovsky, Philadelphia, Pa., for relator.

Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., David Richman, Asst. Dist. Atty., for respondent.


OPINION

HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.

The factual background to the present application for the writ of habeas corpus may be summarized as follows: The relator, Edwin Blaine Chalfonte, was indicted by the Philadelphia County Grand Jury, Indictments Nos. 20-29, November Sessions, 1937, and No. 421, May Sessions, 1932. He was tried before the Honorable Harry S. McDevitt and a Jury on November 5, 1937, and was convicted on all indictments. The Court sentenced...

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