WILLIAMS v. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

No. 72-1233.

463 F.2d 993 (1972)

Luther WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 21, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luther Williams, pro se.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., and Kenneth M. Romines, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., on brief for appellee.

Before ROSS and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and URBOM, Chief District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Luther Williams, a state prisoner, is confined in the Missouri State Penitentiary and was granted a certificate of probable cause by District Judge William R. Collinson to effect an appeal to this court, following an adverse ruling on his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

On March 9, 1967, the petitioner-appellant was sentenced to a term of ten years, after a jury found him guilty of robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly...

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