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UNITED STATES EX REL. GOCKLEY v. MYERS

No. 19209.

450 F.2d 232 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Edwin GOCKLEY, Appellant, v. David N. MYERS, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, Pennsylvania.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 20, 1971.

Certiorari Denied January 24, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Robert Fiebach, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Arthur Ed. Saylor, Sp. Asst. Dist. Atty., Edelman, Schaeffer, Saylor, Readinger & Poore, Reading, Pa., for appellee.

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

Certiorari Denied January 24, 1972. See 92 S.Ct. 738.

OPINION OF THE COURT

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Gockley, a state prisoner, is serving a ten to twenty year term of imprisonment after conviction of murder in the second degree of Clement Smith. The conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Commonwealth v. Gockley, 1953, 411 Pa. 437, 192 A.2d 693.

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