Commonwealth Ex Rel. Czako v. Maroney

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Eagen,

Tins is an appeal from an order in the court below dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, after hearing. It is without merit.

The appellant, Steve Czako, was indicted and tried for murder. He was convicted by the jury of murder in the first degree on the eye-witness testimony of two of his daughters and a son. Punishment was fixed at life imprisonment. No appeal was filed from the judgment of sentence.

The first reason assigned in the present proceeding for the issuance of the writ is that the appellant was indicted and tried without a coroner’s inquest…