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JACKSON v. COX

No. 14073.

435 F.2d 1089 (1970)

William Donovan JACKSON, Appellant, v. J. D. COX, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Strother Smith, III, Abingdon, Va. (Court-assigned counsel), for appellant.

James E. Kulp, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, on the brief), for appellee.

Before CRAVEN and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges, and THOMSEN, District Judge.

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

William Donovan Jackson was convicted on pleas of guilty to two indictments charging first degree murder and sentenced to two concurrent terms of fifty years each in the Virginia penitentiary. Contending that his guilty pleas were the result of a coerced confession and incompetent advice of counsel, Jackson appeals the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district judge, after an evidentiary hearing, held that Jackson's confession...

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