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COM. ex rel. HOUGH v. MARONEY

402 Pa. 371 (1961)

Commonwealth ex rel. Hough, Appellant, v. Maroney.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 16, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjorie Hanson Matson, for appellant.

William H. Wolf, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, with him Arlen Specter and Domenick Vitullo, Assistant District Attorneys, Paul M. Chalfin, First Assistant District Attorney, and Victor H. Blanc, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, January 16, 1961:

Appellant, by this appeal, challenges the legal correctness of the lower court's action in summarily dismissing his petition for writs of habeas corpus and coram nobis. He is presently under sentence of life imprisonment, after conviction by his own plea of guilty to the charge of murder and the determination by the court that his guilt was that of murder in the first degree.

The crime grew out of an armed robbery...

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