BRINLEE v. WHITE

No. 25824.

401 F.2d 763 (1968)

Ira Leonard BRINLEE, Appellant, v. Wingate WHITE, Warden, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

October 11, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira Leonard Brinlee, pro se.

George A. Bourgeois, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., of Louisiana. Frank T. Salter, Jr., Dist. Atty., for the Fourteenth Judicial District, for appellee.

Before GOLDBERG and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and SPEARS, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Ira L. Brinlee has appealed from the denial of his petition for habeas corpus by the United States District Court. We affirm.

The appellant is confined by authority of a life sentence which was imposed on October 13, 1961, following conviction for murder upon trial by jury in a Louisiana state court. There was no direct appeal.

The District Court held that Brinlee intentionally bypassed his state remedy of direct appeal, and that therefore...

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