Commonwealth Ex Rel. Stevens v. Myers

Concurring Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell :

Recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States which overruled and changed well settled law are the real cause of the flood of habeas corpus petitions which, unlimited and unrestricted by that Court, are unrealistically and unnecessarily swamping State *25Courts and, we believe, Federal Courts* also. Those decisions have created new and difficult legal and police problems, and have imposed new Constitutional restrictions on the solution of crime and the conviction of criminals.** Especially when retroactively applied by the mandates of the…