VAUGHN v. SWENSON

No. 71-1172.

446 F.2d 1009 (1971)

Victor D. VAUGHN, Appellant, v. Harold R. SWENSON, Warden, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

August 17, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Nelson Happy, Kansas City, Mo., on brief for appellant.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., and Gene E. Voigts, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., on brief for appellee.

Before HEANEY, BRIGHT and ROSS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

In 1965, petitioner, Victor Vaughn, was convicted of first degree robbery in a state court of Missouri on his plea of guilty. He now seeks habeas corpus relief, claiming that his guilty plea was not voluntarily entered under the standards of Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (1969), and that the state trial court, which originally considered his Boykin claim, failed to make adequate findings...

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