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COMMONWEALTH v. DAVIS

430 Pa. 392 (1968)

Commonwealth v. Davis, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 1, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jimmie Lee Davis, appellant, in propria persona.

Michael J. Rotko, Assistant District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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

OPINION PER CURIAM, July 1, 1968:

In April, 1962, Jimmy Lee Davis pleaded guilty generally to murder and was adjudged guilty of murder in the second degree. Sentenced to a term of imprisonment from ten to twenty years, he took no appeal. Later he filed two petitions for writ of habeas corpus (in 1963 and 1965) and they were both denied, the denials being affirmed by this Court, as hereinafter noted.

In October, 1967, he filed the present petition under the...

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