JOSEPH S. LORD, III, District Judge.
This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a state prisoner. Relator was indicted for murder and at the time of trial in 1951, he entered a plea of guilty. After a hearing, a three-judge court en banc found relator guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced him to life imprisonment. No appeal was taken at that time.
A petition for writ of habeas corpus was filed in the state court in 1959. That petition was...
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