UNITED STATES EX REL. JOHNSON v. JOHNSON

No. 72-1104.

471 F.2d 264 (1973)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Freddie M. JOHNSON H-7496, Appellant, v. Robert L. JOHNSON, Superintendent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided January 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Freddie M. Johnson, pro se.

James D. Crawford, Deputy Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee.

Before GIBBONS and JAMES ROSEN, Circuit Judges, and LAYTON, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for habeas corpus. Petitioner Johnson is in custody on a Pennsylvania sentence of life imprisonment following a jury verdict of first degree murder growing out of a robbery. The conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Commonwealth v. Johnson, 433 Pa. 34, 248 A.2d 840 (1969). Thereafter, in February of 1969...

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