Legal Opinion

Commonwealth ex rel. Firmstone v. Myers

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 11, 1957No. Appeal, No. 140PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

The relator has appealed from the denial of his application for a writ of error coram nobis. Judge Greevy, in the opinion accompanying the order of the lower court in this case, stated that this is the third time the petitioner has made application for a writ of coram nobis, and that four applications for writs of habeas corpus which had been filed by him had also been denied. Relator is now serving a life sentence imposed on him on May 21, 1952, as. a fourth offender, under the Act of June 24, 1939, P. L. 872, §1108(b), 18 PS §5108. .....

*3Relator now complains that when he…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. HarrisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1945
  2. Trignani's CaseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1942
  3. Commonwealth ex rel. Firmstone v. BurkeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1954
  4. Commonwealth v. OndrejcakSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1956

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. PyleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
  2. Commonwealth v. OrsinoSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
  3. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Diggs v. BanmillerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1959
  4. Gerberding v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1970
  5. Commonwealth ex rel. Firmstone v. MyersLycoming County Court of Quarter Sessions · 1963

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