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SPEARS v. CIRCUIT COURT, NINTH J. D., WARREN CTY., MISS.

No. 74-3762.

517 F.2d 360 (1975)

Lea SPEARS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. CIRCUIT COURT, NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, WARREN COUNTY, STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 11, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roland C. Lewis (Court-appointed), Jackson, Miss., for petitioner-appellant.

Timmie Hancock, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for respondent-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and GEWIN and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.

GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

The instant appeal, the latest installment in the legal saga of the appellant, Lea Spears, is from the denial of her petition for the writ of habeas corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2241 et seq. This litigation has a prodigious history beginning in 1969 when Spears was convicted in the Circuit Court of Warren County, Mississippi, of performing an abortion in violation of § 2223 Miss.Code 1942 (Supp. 1966) [now codified as § 97-3-3 Miss. Code...

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