Commonwealth Ex Rel. Cummins v. Price

Opinion by

Mb; Chief Justice Bele,

•Defendant* was indicted for the murder of Nancy Flowers on December 21, 1963. He appeals from an Order of the Court below dismissing his pretrial petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Defendant’s petition for the writ, which was filed November 12, 1961¡-, averred (1) that he suffered permanent injury at the time of the alleged murder; and (2) that, as a result of this injury, he “has suffered a permanent loss of memory of [the facts, circumstances and all] the events prior to, at the time of and subsequent to the circumstances surrounding his arrest”; and (3)…