United States ex rel. Wing v. Commonwealth

GOURLEY, District Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding by the United States of America on relation of George Wing against Stanley P. Ashe, Warden, Western State Penitentiary, et al.

George Wing, the petitioner, on November 12, 1929 being arraigned on a charge of murder, pleaded guilty to' an indictment returned at No. 1 November Term, 1929, Court of Quarter Sessions of Erie County, certified to No. 1 November Term, 1929, Court of Oyer and Terminer of Erie County, Pennsylvania.

Petitioner was charged with the murder of George Lavern Ormsbee, an infant child, who came to his death on August…