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WILLIAMS v. COINER

No. 11184.

392 F.2d 210 (1968)

Ted WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. Ira M. COINER, Warden of the West Virginia State Penitentiary, Successor to Otto C. Boles, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 6, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George K. Walker, Richmond, Va. (Court-assigned counsel) [Hunton, Williams, Gay, Powell & Gibson, Richmond, Va., on brief], for appellant.

Thomas B. Yost, Asst. Atty. Gen. of West Virginia (C. Donald Robertson, Atty. Gen. of West Virginia, Leo Catsonis and Morton I. Taber, Asst. Attys. Gen. of West Virginia, on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges, and MERHIGE, District Judge.

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

Appealing the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Williams, a West Virginia prisoner since 1936, raises two seemingly meritorious claims. He alleges that he is currently serving a life sentence on an unconstitutional recidivist charge premised in part upon two earlier felony convictions obtained when he was without benefit of counsel. Williams also alleges that because of his indigence he was deprived the right to appeal his...

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