Commonwealth v. Oliver

VAN der VOORT, Judge:

The appellant, Joseph Jude Oliver, filed the instant appeal following the denial by the lower court, after a hearing of his petition for relief under the Post Conviction Hearing Act. (Act of January 25,1966, P.L. 1580,19 P.S. § 1180-1 et seq. The record shows that on May 29, 1969, the appellant was sentenced to ten to twenty years in prison following his conviction on rape charges. On appellant’s subsequent direct appeal we affirmed the judgment of sentence. Commonwealth v. Oliver, 216 Pa.Super. 744, 258 A.2d 337 (1969). Thereafter the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied…