United States ex rel. Williams v. Myers

WOOD, District Judge.

The petitioner was tried and convicted on two bills of indictment charging aggravated robbery and is at present confined in the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, Pennsylvania for a period of not less than ten nor more than twenty years on each bill, sentences to run consecutively. The petition avers illegal arrest, illegal search and seizure, coercion in the procuring of petitioner’s confession, introduction of fabricated and hearsay testimony, and misconduct by the District Attorney during the course of the petitioner’s trial. The petitioner contends that he…