MORRIS v. WINGO

No. 19425.

421 F.2d 651 (1970)

George L. MORRIS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John W. WINGO, Warden Kentucky State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

January 29, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Morris in pro. per.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., James H. Barr, Asst. Atty. Gen., Commonwealth of Kentucky, Frankfort, Ky., on brief for respondent-appellee.

Before CELEBREZZE and PECK, Circuit Judges, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.


CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by George L. Morris, petitioner-appellant, from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Paducah Division, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Actually the petitioner had filed two petitions in the District Court and the district judge considered them together and denied them by order under date of December 2, 1968.

Morris is confined in the Kentucky State...

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