Legal Opinion

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ex rel. Markley v. Botula

District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania

Decided June 23, 1964No. Misc. No. 3500Published

1Opinion of the Court

ROSENBERG, District Judge.

The relator here seeks a Writ of Ha-beas Corpus. He is now confined in the Allegheny County Workhouse by reason of pleas of guilty before a judge in Erie County, Pennsylvania.

The charges against him were multiple as based upon false pretense and uttering worthless checks. The relator complains about the sentences as imposed and charges that the trial judge made a statement at the time of the sentencing, but later amended the oral statement by reducing it to writing. This was signed by the trial judge as an order and made final. The relator petitioned the trial judge…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. United States of America Ex Rel. Alvin R. Drew v. David N. Myers, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, PennsylvaniaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1964
  2. United States Ex Rel. Robert L. Brown v. Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1963

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