United States ex rel. Bowen v. Mazurkiewicz

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, District Judge.

Relator was convicted, following a guilty plea, under Bills of Indictment Nos. 687-692 (November Term, 1945) in the Court of Quarter Sessions, Philadelphia County. He attacked this conviction by filing a petition under the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Hearing Act, 19 Pa.Stat.Ann. § 1180-1 et seq. (hereinafter “PCHA”) in the Philadelphia County Court of Quarter Sessions on September 5, 1968. The court, on July 30, 1969, denied the petition. A timely appeal from this decision was not taken.

On July 18, 1969, relator filed a habeas corpus…