Commonwealth ex rel. Dion v. Tees

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

On this appeal from the dismissal of appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus we are presented with only two questions: First, whether Dion, appellant, was deprived of “effective” representation by counsel at his criminal trial because of an alleged short notice to proceed to trial; and second, whether in the instant proceeding it was error for President Judge Wissler below to decide the petition for habeas corpus without having presided at the hearing on it.

On December 8, 1952, appellant and one Louis Biancone were tried for armed robbery, convicted, and sentenced…