United States ex rel. Beecham v. Rundle

OPINION

KRAFT, District Judge.

Over sixteen years ago, on June 2, 1953, relator pleaded guilty to charges of burglary and larceny of the Bryn Mawr Thrift Shop and received a sentence of 5 to 20 years.1 Relator attacks the validity of this conviction claiming that he never committed the crime and that his guilty plea was involuntary. He seek to benefit from the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (June 2, 1969) which reversed a state conviction because the record failed to reflect that the defendant voluntarily and…