United States of America Ex Rel. Roy Helwig v. James F. Maroney, Superintendent, Western State Penitentiary, Pittsburgh 33, Pennsylvania

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus.

On February 23, 1956, appellant was .found guilty of burglary by a jury of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Erie County, Pennsylvania. The trial lasted eight days, through all of which appellant, at Lis own insistence, represented himself, The transcript contains 746 pages of testimony, the vast bulk of which consists of appellant’s direct and cross-examination of witnesses. That record plainly reveals the great restraint and patience Of the trial judge in his attempts to keep the defendant within even the…