GEWIN, Circuit Judge.
Appellant, convicted of murder and now under a death sentence, petitioned the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia for a writ of habeas corpus. After a full evidentiary hearing the district court denied the petition. We reverse.
The facts may be briefly stated. On July 16, 1960, J. C. Chambers, a white grocer, was slain and robbed at his store near Macon, Georgia. Petitioner, a Negro man of little education...
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