Commonwealth ex rel. Pomales v. Myers

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Eagen,

The appellant, Ramon Pomales, was indicted for murder, and plead guilty generally thereto. He was represented by court-appointed counsel. After hearing, the trial court found him guilty of murder in the second degree and imposed a sentence of imprisonment in a state correctional institution for a period of not less than eight years and not more than twenty years, under which he is now confined. No appeal from the judgment was entered.

Subsequently, an action in habeas corpus was instituted, which the lower court dismissed. An appeal from that order is now before us…