UNITED STATES v. KENNEDY

No. 30879 Summary Calendar.

446 F.2d 1388 (1971)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Dewayne MASSEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. T. E. KENNEDY, Sheriff, Turner County, Georgia, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Moore, Jr., Peter E. Rindskopf, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

W. J. Forehand, Dist. Atty., Tifton, Ga., for defendant-appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and INGRAHAM and RONEY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The petitioner, a Georgia prisoner who was convicted of rape in 1965, appeals from the denial without a hearing by the district court of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. The district court held that because the petitioner had to be retried on the penalty phase of his offense, the petition was premature. We affirm.

Following the petitioner's conviction, upon which he was sentenced to death, he unsuccessfully prosecuted an appeal. Massey v...

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