Legal Opinion
Commonwealth Ex Rel. Wright v. Cavell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 24, 1966No. Appeal, 137PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bell,
This appeal arose by the grant of an allocatur from an Order of the Superior Court which, by an equally divided Court, affirmed an Order of the Court of Common Pleas which had dismissed, without a hearing, relator’s petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Commonwealth ex rel. Wright v. Cavell, 207 Pa. Superior Ct. 714, 214 A. 2d 514 (1965).
Relator was arrested for alleged larceny. He gave an incriminating statement to the police and thereafter had a hearing before an Alderman on December 14, 1959, and again on January 19, 1960. On none of these occasions was he…
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