Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Swingle v. Rundle
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided April 27, 1962No. Misc. No. 2371PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FREEDMAN, District Judge.
More than ten years after relator had been sentenced to life imprisonment on his plea of guilty of murder, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, on his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, set the sentence aside with direction to the Court below, the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Wayne County, to impose a proper and legal sentence. The sentence had been rendered on June 20, 1949. It was set aside by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on December 30, 1959. The Court of Oyer and Terminer believed that the sentence was required by § 701 of The Penal Code, Act of 1939, P.L.…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Murphy v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
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3Cited by4 opinions
- United States of America Ex Rel. Lewis Alexander Brooks, Relator-Appellant v. Daniel McMann Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- United States ex rel. Swingle v. RundleCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1963
- Johnson v. CrouseDistrict Court, D. Kansas · 1964
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