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COMMONWEALTH EX REL. WAKIN v. KEENAN. (12/12/62)
December 12, 1962
COMMONWEALTH EX REL. WAKIN, APPELLANT,
v.
KEENAN.
Appeal, No. 193, April T., 1962, from order of Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, April T., 1962, No. 3792, in case of Commonwealth ex rel. Edward Wakin v. Lawrence Keenan, Superintendent. Appeal dismissed.
Edward Wakin, appellant, in propria persona.
William Claney Smith, Assistant District Attorney, and Edward C. Boyle, District Attorney, for appellee.
Before Rhodes, P.j., Ervin, Wright, Woodside, Watkins, Montgomery, and Flood, JJ.
Relator's petition for writ of habeas corpus was dismissed by President Judge MCNAUGHER of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, "since on its face the petition has no merit and the allegations are the same as those considered in previous petitions." We agree with the court below.
Relator's conviction was sustained by this Court in Com. v. Wakin, 196 Pa. Superior Ct. 545, 175 A.2d 886.