Commonwealth v. Meder

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

This is an appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County dated July 23, 1991, which denied appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. 1 Appellant filed her petition from the decision of the district justice which held her for trial. We affirm.

The charges filed against appellant are for first- and third-degree murder. The Commonwealth has alleged that appellant strangled her newborn child in October 1985. At the preliminary hearing two witnesses testified. The first witness was appellant’s mother, Gloria Meder. Gloria Med-er testified that in the…