Commonwealth ex rel. Lewis v. Tees

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This comes before us on appeal from the refusal of the Bradford County court to grant a writ of habeas corpus to the applicant, a prisoner in Eastern State Penitentiary serving a life sentence for indecent assault imposed under the Act of January 8, 1952, P. L. 1851, 19 PS §1166 et seq.

The petitioner raises a number of questions concerning the conduct of the trial, the sufficiency of the *133evidence, the integrity of the witness, and similar matters which could have been raised upon appeal and which are not properly raised by a writ of habeas corpus. Com. ex rel. Sell v.…