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COM. ex rel. HILBERRY v. MARONEY

417 Pa. 534 (1965)

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

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 16, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Thomas Hilberry, appellant, in propria persona.

William R. Balph, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, and Kenneth E. Fox, Jr., District Attorney, for appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, March 16, 1965:

William Hilberry stands confined for life under a sentence imposed for the brutal murder of his wife on April 4, 1952. In 1963, Hilberry sought a writ of habeas corpus, but the petition was denied without hearing. Since the case involves homicide, the appeal from the dismissal comes directly to us.1

The grounds upon which the petition builds deal with the petitioner's sanity at crucial...

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