United States ex rel. Owens v. Quarter Sessions Court

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MARSH, District Judge.

The relator, Kenneth W. Owens, Jr., presents a “Motion for Removal of Cause”, in forma pauperis, to this federal district court. The cause he seeks to remove is his petition under the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Hearing Act which he alleges he filed in the state court in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 1966, hearing thereon held June 15, 1967, but as of November 15, 1967, ''no decision has been rendered. A writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania was returned by the Prothonotary of that Court to the relator.

Relator also…