Commonwealth v. Black

Opinion by

Me. Justice Roberts,

This is an appeal from the dismissal without hearing of appellant’s second petition for collateral relief. On this petition he raises four claims: (1) denial of effective assistance of counsel at trial; (2) his guilty plea was not voluntarily and knowingly entered; (3) his privilege against self-incrimination was violated; (4) there was insufficient evidence of guilt for the court to properly accept his guilty plea. However, we need not reach the merits of any of these claims because of appellant’s prior collateral attack proceeding.

On September 20, 1967…