Commonwealth Ex Rel. Sleighter v. Banmiller

Opinion by

Mr. Justice. Cohen,

This appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County dismissing the relator’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus is the sixth proceeding 1 taken by the petitioner who seeks release from im prisonment imposed following a conviction for first degree murder, from which no appeal was taken.

In 1937 the petitioner was convicted of first degree murder in the death of a six year old girl who had been a foster child in the relator’s home. The Commonwealth’s evidence, based mainly upon the relator’s confession, disclosed that the child had died as…