Commonwealth Ex Rel. Ketter v. Day

Opinion by

Carr, J.,

James Ketter, a prisoner in the State Penitentiary at Graterford, appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County refusing a writ of habeas corpus for his discharge from custody. He attacks the validity of his conviction and sentence by the court of Oyer and Terminer of that county on the grounds that he was not given a preliminary hearing before a magistrate, that he was improperly indicted jointly with an unidentified “John Doe”, that one of the witnesses against him testified falsely, and that certain other evidence was inadmissible.

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