United States ex rel. Brown v. Russell

OPINION

MASTERSON, District Judge.

In this habeas corpus petition relator seeks relief on the ground that he was denied a fair trial because of the trial judge’s allegedly prejudicial comments on the evidence during the trial and in his charge to the jury.

Relator was tried in the Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions on May 3, 1966, before the Honorable Maurice W. Sporkin for rape and sodomy and was convicted by a jury. Relator then filed a Motion in Arrest of Judgment and for a New Trial contending, as he does here, that the trial judge unfairly commented on the evidence in his case. On…