CRONNON v. STATE OF ALABAMA

No. 76-2161.

557 F.2d 472 (1977)

Johnny Lee CRONNON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF ALABAMA, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 12, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myron K. Allenstein, Gadsden, Ala. (Court-appointed), for petitioner-appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., David W. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for respondent-appellee.

Before GOLDBERG and HILL, Circuit Judges, and KERR, District Judge.


GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

Johnny Lee Cronnon seeks habeas corpus relief from his Alabama conviction of first-degree murder. At trial Cronnon denied that he committed the gruesome murder of the fifteen-year-old victim. A jury found him guilty, and he drew a sentence of life imprisonment.

In this habeas corpus action Cronnon raises seven claims: (1) the improper use of eyewitness testimony derived from a suggestive pretrial photographic identification procedure...

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