WADE v. COINER

No. 71-1638.

468 F.2d 1059 (1972)

Harold Jimmy WADE, Appellant, v. Ira M. COINER, Warden of the West Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 26, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry J. Ritchie, Washington, D. C. (Court-appointed counsel), for appellant.

Richard E. Hardison, Asst. Atty. Gen. of West Virginia (Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen. of West Virginia, on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and CRAVEN and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges.


CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from denial of habeas relief, capable court-appointed counsel for Prisoner Wade frames the question to be whether Wade was denied due process by the acceptance of his guilty plea without specifically determining "whether Wade understood the nature of the charge and the relation of the law to the acts he committed and the consequences of his plea, i. e., the waiver of several constitutional rights?" We agree that for the...

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