Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 10, 1975.
WEBSTER, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal from the denial of habeas corpus relief below, Merle Ray Winford asserts that his 1964 guilty plea to a charge of second degree murder was neither voluntarily nor understandingly made and that in dismissing his habeas petition the District Court erred in not affording him a de novo evidentiary hearing. We reject both contentions and affirm the result below.
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