Commonwealth Ex Rel. Marino v. Myers

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

Appellant is presently serving a life sentence following his 1947 jury conviction of murder in the first degree.1 He filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus *450in the court below contending that the introduction at his trial of evidence of prior convictions, under the then prevailing “Parker Rule”,2 resulted in a denial of due process and invalidated his conviction.3 The petition was dismissed4 and this appeal followed.

Upon examination of the record, we conclude that the court below did not err in dismissing appellant’s petition. However, in light of the recent…