Case Name: Commonwealth ex rel. Wood, Appellant, v. Maroney
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1965-12-16
Citations: 207 Pa. Super. 191
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 357
Parties: Commonwealth ex rel. Wood, Appellant, v. Maroney.
Judges: Before Ervin, P. J., Wright, Watkins, Montgomery, Jacobs, and Hoffman, JJ. (Flood, J., absent).
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 207
Pages: 191–193

Head Matter:
Commonwealth ex rel. Wood, Appellant, v. Maroney.
Argued November 8, 1965.
Before Ervin, P. J., Wright, Watkins, Montgomery, Jacobs, and Hoffman, JJ. (Flood, J., absent).
Carom J. Abood, with him Green, Gibson & Abood, for appellant.
W. Thomas Malcolm, District Attorney, with him Robert C. Earley, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.
December 16, 1965:

Opinion:
Opinion by
Wright, J.,
Robert E. Wood has appealed from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The background of this case is summarized in our opinion af.firming the dismissal of a prior habeas corpus petition. See Commonwealth ex rel. Wood v. Maroney, 199 Pa. Superior Ct. 561, 186 A. 2d 864. Allocatur refused 199 Pa. Superior Ct. xxxi. Certiorari denied 374 U. S. 854, 10 L. Ed. 2d 1075, 83 S. Ct. 1922.
The order of the court below will be affirmed for two reasons. (1) In Wood's present petition the sole contention which may be raised by habeas corpus is the denial of effective representation by counsel. This contention was considered and rejected in the prior appeal. (2) As a consequence of Wood's parole he is no longer in the custody of the superintendent of the Western State Correctional Institution, wherefore the proceeding has become moot: Commonwealth ex rel. Spader v. Burke, 171 Pa. Superior Ct. 289, 90 A. 2d 849.
Order affirmed.
Montgomery, J., concurs only because the question is moot.