Commonwealth ex rel. Brogan v. Banmiller

Sloane, J.,

Relator, a prisoner in Eastern State Penitentiary, petitioned this court for a writ of habeas corpus. He was convicted with two others by a jury before Carroll, J., on bills of indictment charging burglary of an automobile, larceny, robbery, unlawfully carrying firearms without a license and conspiracy. He received a judgment of sentence.

Relator assigns various grounds of error in the trial, which, he alleges, have resulted in an abridgement of his civil liberties, as guaranteed by the Federal and State Constitutions.

It is axiomatic that habeas corpus can never serve as substitute…