Commonwealth ex rel. McCant v. Rundle

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

Joseph McCant, on a plea of guilty to a murder indictment, was convicted of murder in the first degree and a sentence of life imprisonment was imposed. He has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus averring he was denied due process in that he had no counsel at the preliminary hearing, that he did not have effective representation at his trial and that his plea of guilty was coerced. None of these reasons has merit.

The petitioner finds himself in prison for life because he fired a revolver shot at one William Harold, the bullet passed through Harold’s body…