Commonwealth Ex Rel. Jennings v. Maroney

Opinion bt

Ervin, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of the lower court discharging a rule for a writ of habeas corpus sought by appellant, who is now a prisoner in the Western State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania.

The only question presented on this appeal is whether the relator was denied his constitutional right to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his far or under the sixth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States and under sections one and nine of Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.

We have read the entire record in this matter and are…