HOLLAND v. BOLES

Civ. A. No. 1245-W.

225 F.Supp. 863 (1963)

Richard HOLLAND, Petitioner, v. Otto C. BOLES, Warden of the West Virginia State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. West Virginia, at Wheeling.

December 16, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremy C. McCamic, Jolyon W. McCamic, Wheeling, W. Va., for petitioner.

Thomas B. Yost, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


CHARLES F. PAUL, Chief Judge.

Richard Holland is serving a life sentence, imposed in 1952, for murder. He complains that he did not enjoy his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel in the proceedings leading up to his conviction and sentence, because his lawyer was serving conflicting interests and could not and did not give his undivided loyalty to Holland's case.

Holland made the same contention in habeas corpus procedings before a State...

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