PETERS v. COX

No. 7946.

341 F.2d 575 (1965)

Robert Roy PETERS, Appellant, v. Harold A. COX, Warden, New Mexico State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 5, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Pade, Denver, Colo., for appellant.

L. D. Harris, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. (Earl E. Hartley, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MURRAH, Chief Judge, and BREITENSTEIN and HILL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The question presented in this habeas corpus appeal is whether the Supreme Court of New Mexico denied appellant's constitutional rights by refusing and failing to appoint counsel to assist him in taking an appeal in a criminal case from that court to the Supreme Court of the United States. We hold that there has been no denial of constitutional rights under the circumstances of this case.

It is, of course, the law that the due process clause of...

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