United States Ex Rel. Sholter v. Claudy

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

The relator, a prisoner in the Western State Penitentiary under sentence of a Pennsylvania court, appeals from an order .of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. It appears that all but one of the contentions made by the relator in the district court had previously been made by him in a petition to the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County, Pennsylvania, and that the Court of Common Pleas, after a full hearing thereon, had found these contentions to be without merit and had denied the…