MOORE v. DUTTON

No. 25644.

396 F.2d 782 (1968)

Robert Felton MOORE, Appellant, v. A. L. DUTTON, Warden, Georgia State Prison, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Corrected Opinion July 5, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Blenn Taylor, Jr., Brunswick, Ga., Murray M. Silver, Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.

Mathew Robins, Asst. Atty. Gen., William R. Childers, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., G. Ernest Tidwell, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., Marion O. Gordon, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

Before GEWIN and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges, and EDENFIELD, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

The appellant, who alleges that he is an indigent Negro, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia in which he alleged that his conviction and death sentence for the crime of murder are illegal because his state court conviction was obtained by the use of a coerced confession; that he was unlawfully deprived of his right to counsel; and that members of the Negro race were systematically...

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