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PRUITT v. HUTTO

No. 76-1062.

542 F.2d 458 (1976)

John D. PRUITT, Appellant, v. Terrell Don HUTTO, Commissioner, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 21, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Pruitt, pro se; Hermann Ivester, Little Rock, Ark., on brief.

Jim Guy Tucker, Atty. Gen., and Jackson Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before GIBSON, Chief Judge, and MARKEY, and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Petitioner, John D. Pruitt, appeals from a District Court judgment dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm the District Court's disposition.

Pruitt was convicted in an Arkansas state court of first degree rape of an eight-year-old girl and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Pruitt had previously been convicted of homicide and indecent exposure. There

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