United States ex rel. Chruscial v. Walters

OPINION

SNYDER, District Judge.

The Petitioner in this case, an inmate at the Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, filed for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Petitioner had entered a plea of guilty to a charge of murder on March 5, 1968, and was sentenced to a term of from ten to twenty years imprisonment by the Honorable Ralph H. Smith, Jr.

In support of his Petition, Mr. Chruscial alleges:

“Following the plea to murder, the Court held a hearing to determine the degree of guilt. During said hearing, I testified that I did not intend to shoot my ‘wife’, but that the killing was…