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UNITED STATES v. MYERS

No. 13032.

276 F.2d 790 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Earl Richard SAUNDERS, Appellant, v. David N. MYERS, Warden, Eastern State Penitentiary, Graterford, Pennsylvania.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Landy, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant.

Edward C. Boyle, Dist. Atty. for Allegheny County, William Claney Smith, Asst. Dist. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee.

Before GOODRICH, McLAUGHLIN and KALODNER, Circuit Judges.

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Saunders, seeks review of the district court's refusal to grant his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The doctrine of exhaustion of state remedies has been satisfied.

Saunders was convicted of murder in the first degree in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania for the shooting and killing of a gas station attendant. He is now serving a life sentence.

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