Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Ritchey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 5, 1968No. 115PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Roberts,
Appellant’s petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act was dismissed by the hearing court and the denial of relief was affirmed per curiam by the Superior Court. We granted leave to file a petition for allocatur to examine appellant’s claimed denial of his right to counsel.
Petitioner was one of three inmates in the State Correctional Institution at Roekview, Centre County, who escaped on October 29, 1958. All three were apprehended the next day in Harrisburg and on November 18, 1958 all three appeared in court. Petitioner and Kenneth John Wagner were without…
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