OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, March 22, 1966:
Jacob E. Manns, while represented by counsel, was convicted in 1943 of murder (felony) by his own voluntary plea of guilty. After hearing, the trial court determined the guilt to be murder in the first degree and imposed a sentence of life imprisonment. No effort to withdraw the plea was ever attempted, nor was an appeal from the judgment filed.
In 1965, this action in habeas corpus was instituted which the lower...
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