Pennsylvania ex rel. Keenan v. Burke

FOLLMER, District Judge.

Petitioner, a prisoner in a state penal institution, has filed his application for writ of habeas corpus in this Court. In his original petition he indicated that he had been *851sentenced in a state court on five separate indictments.1 The term of ten to twenty-years imposed on a plea of “guilty” on Indictment No. 833 as the first of the consecutive sentences has not yet expired. The petition consisted of bald allegations that he was not properly tried due to perjured testimony, that he was not permitted to take the stand in his own behalf, and also the stereotyped…