United States ex rel. Sliva v. Rundle

WOOD, District Judge.

On February 27, 1964, we denied the petitioner’s application for a writ of ha-beas corpus without a hearing. He now seeks a reconsideration of that denial or a certificate of probable cause. In order to clarify our decision, at his request, we have set out in detail his entire trial and post-trial history to the best of our knowledge.

The petitioner was convicted of robbery on February 16, 1959, in Montgomery County, and sentenced to a term of 30 to 60 years in the State Correctional Institution at Philadelphia.1 Ten months later he was convicted of robbery and burglary in…