United States ex rel. Cornitcher v. Rundle

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, District Judge.

Habeas corpus. Relator attacks his May 22, 1963, conviction for rape, Bill of Indictment No. 186, August Sessions, 1962, Philadelphia County, on the grounds that (1) he lost his right of appeal because retained counsel abandoned him after sentencing when he, relator, became indigent; (2) he was denied a fair trial because the prosecutor used a mentally incompetent witness, the prosecutrix; and (3) the prosecutor suppressed evidence favorable to relator. Relator has attacked this conviction on federal habeas corpus before, United States…