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COM. ex rel. FLETCHER v. CAVELL

395 Pa. 134 (1959)

Commonwealth ex rel. Fletcher v. Cavell.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 20, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjorie Hanson Matson, for petitioner.

Glenn R. Toothman, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, ARNOLD, JONES and COHEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JONES, March 20, 1959:

By this petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which is here under our original jurisdiction, the relator, James Morris Fletcher, seeks release from his present restraint in the Western State Penitentiary where he is serving a life sentence for his conviction of murder in the first degree.

The principal contention, which the petitioner now advances, was urged upon...

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