United States of America Ex Rel. James Crowson, E-7636 v. Joseph R. Brierley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Philadelphia, Penna

OPINION OF THE COURT

This appeal challenges a District Court order, entered after the grant of a hearing to relator, 1 which order denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Relator is confined pursuant to a sentence of life imprisonment imposed September 9, 1957, after entry of a plea of guilty to murder generally and a determination by a state three-judge court that relator was guilty of murder in the first degree.

After careful consideration of the record, we will affirm the order of the District Court for the reasons so well stated by Judge Body in his opinion of October 17, 1968. D.C.,…