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COM. ex rel. DICKERSON v. RUNDLE

411 Pa. 651 (1963)

Commonwealth ex rel. Dickerson, Appellant, v. Rundle.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 2, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murray Dickerson, appellant, in propria persona.

Burton Satzberg, Assistant District Attorney, with him Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorney, F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Jr., First Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, July 2, 1963:

The appellant, Murray Dickerson, was tried and convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree. The punishment was fixed at life imprisonment. On appeal to this Court, the judgment of sentence was affirmed: Commonwealth v. Dickerson, 406 Pa. 102, 176 A.2d 421 (1962).

Subsequently, an action of habeas corpus was filed, which the lower court dismissed without hearing. From that...

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