United States ex rel. Jones v. Russell

*1029MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JOHN W. LORD, Jr., Chief Judge.

Relator, William O. Jones, who is presently incarcerated in the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, has filed with this Court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Relator pled guilty to murder generally on Bill of Indictment Number 48, March Term 1950, and on June 16, 1950, a two-judge panel determined that relator was guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

In June 1965, relator filed a habeas corpus petition in Lancaster County. This petition was dismissed by the Court of Common…