United States ex rel. Williams v. Rundle

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

Relator, a State prisoner, presently confined at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, Pennsylvania, raises three separate grounds in support of his present petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Initially, relator asserts that he was never indicted for the offense of second-degree murder to which he pleaded guilty. Secondly, he asserts that his guilty plea was unintelligent in that he mistakenly believed that in return for his guilty plea, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would abstain from prosecuting other related indictments.…