BURNS v. STATE OF ALABAMA

No. 22754.

360 F.2d 608 (1966)

Timothy BURNS, Appellant, v. STATE OF ALABAMA, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 12, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Burns, pro. se.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., John C. Tyson, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge, and LYNNE, District Judge.


LYNNE, District Judge:

Appellant, an indigent Alabama state convict, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on February 17, 1965, in the District Court for the Southern District of Alabama alleging that he was not effectively represented by court-appointed counsel on May 13, 1957, when he was tried and convicted of robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment. He also alleged that he had previously petitioned for coram nobis relief in the state courts but that the...

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