Commonwealth Ex Rel. Norman v. Banmiller

Opinion by

Mr. -Justice Bell,

Petitioner was convicted in May, 1949, on eight bills of indictment charging armed robberies, and was sentenced to 80 to 160 years. On July 1, 1949, he was convicted by a jury of first degree murder occurring during a robbery on March 12, 1949, in which he shot and hilled Herman Weintraub, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Petitioner on February 10, 1958, applied for a writ of habeas corpus from his conviction of murder alleging (1) that his confession was coerced; and (2) that his trial ivas so permeated with trial errors that collectively these errors…