MOTES v. LEEKE

Civ. A. No. 76-1107.

423 F.Supp. 919 (1976)

James W. MOTES, Petitioner, v. William D. LEEKE and the Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, Respondents.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

December 22, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy T. Stuckey, Vance L. Cowden, John L. Davidson, Corrections Clinic, University of South Carolina Law Center, Columbia, S.C., for petitioner.

Emmet H. Clair, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., for respondents.


ORDER

BLATT, District Judge.

Petitioner, a state prisoner, filed this action under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 seeking a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner was convicted of murder and this conviction was affirmed by the South Carolina Supreme Court, State v. Motes, 264 S.C. 317, 215 S.E.2d 190 (1975); he then filed an application for post-conviction relief in the state court, which application...

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