UNITED STATES EX REL. STEWART v. HEWITT

No. 74-2140.

517 F.2d 993 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Frederick Charles STEWART, Appellant, v. Lowell D. HEWITT, Warden.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman M. Yoffe, Harrisburg, Pa., for appellant.

LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Dist. Atty., Marion E. MacIntyre, Deputy Dist. Atty., Richard A. Lewis, Harrisburg, Pa., for appellee.

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, and ROSENN and WEIS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Chief Judge.

This case is before us on appeal from the district court's denial of a petition for habeas corpus relief based on the Double Jeopardy provision of the 5th Amendment.

On March 18, 1961, appellant (hereafter "defendant") was convicted in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas of the murder of his wife. In state post conviction proceedings, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, on October 4, 1972, reversed defendant...

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