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WYNN v. SMITH

No. 30004.

446 F.2d 341 (1971)

Harris Percy WYNN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Samuel L. SMITH, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, Ga., Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 12, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harris P. Wynn, pro se.

J. Stephens Jenkins, Jr., Atlanta, Ga. (court appointed), for petitioner-appellant.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., William R. Childers, Jr., Dorothy T. Beasley, Asst. Attys. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., Marion O. Gordon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent-appellee.

Before WISDOM, Circuit Judge, DAVIS, Judge, and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge.

DAVIS, Judge.

Appellant Harris Percy Wynn was convicted, in July 1960 in the Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia, on his plea of guilty to robbery-by-force, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.1 In November 1968 he filed a petition for habeas corpus in the Superior Court of Tattnall County, Georgia, primarily on the grounds that he had been denied his right to the assistance of counsel, either appointed or retained, in the criminal...

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