COM. ex rel. BANKS v. CLAUDY


370 Pa. 190 (1952)

Commonwealth ex rel. Banks, Appellant, v. Claudy.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 22, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virgil Banks, Sr., appellant, in propria persona, submitted a brief.

Albert A. Fiok, Assistant District Attorney, with him James F. Malone, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

Before DREW, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.


OPINION PER CURIAM, April 22, 1952:

This is an appeal by the relator, Virgil Banks, Sr., from the denial by the Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County of a petition for writ of habeas corpus. The petition is a verbatim copy of a petition filed by the same prisoner in this Court on September 15, 1950, at Miscellaneous Docket No. 1728. At that time, a rule to show cause was allowed and was served on the Warden of the Western State Penitentiary, the District...

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