Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. McCant v. Brierly
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 4, 1969No. 3871PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
TROUTMAN, District Judge.
This is a petition by a State prisoner for a writ of habeas corpus. Relator entered a plea of guilty to a general charge of murder in the Criminal Courts of Philadelphia County on October 25, 1954. A three-judge court was impanelled which after hearing the testimony bearing upon the degree of guilt fixed the degree of the crime at murder in the first degree and sentenced relator to life imprisonment. No direct appeal was taken from the judgment of conviction and sentence.
On two separate occasions relator collaterally attacked his conviction and…
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