Commonwealth Ex Rel. Matthews v. Day

Opinion

Pee Cueiam,

This is an appeal from an order of the court below dismissing appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant was indicted, tried, and found guilty of the crime of voluntary manslaughter. His present petition states that there are six questions involved, — ■ Whether he was entitled to have had an investigation made of the charges? Whether he had been entitled to a postponement of his trial in order to have a certain witness present? Whether a certain article shown to the jury was inadmissible as evidence? Whether he was improperly convicted on the testimony of two…