BOWMAN v. BORDENKIRCHER

No. 74-1018.

522 F.2d 209 (1975)

Gene N. BOWMAN, Sr., Appellant, v. Donald E. BORDENKIRCHER, Jr., Warden of the West Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 4, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. O'Donnell, student counsel (Larry J. Ritchie, Washington, D. C., court-appointed, Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr., student counsel, and Georgetown University Law Center, on brief), for appellant.

E. Leslie Hoffman, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Richard E. Hardison, Deputy Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and THOMSEN, Senior District Judge.


THOMSEN, Senior District Judge.

Petitioner below (Bowman) appeals from the denial by the district court of the relief requested in his petition for habeas corpus challenging his conviction of first degree murder after a jury trial in a state court in West Virginia. Along with his pro se petition, which was quite articulate, Bowman sent to the district court several exhibits, including a printed transcript of the proceedings...

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