PITTMAN v. HOPPER

No. 77-1044. Summary Calendar.

555 F.2d 551 (1977)

Lonzie PITTMAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Joe S. HOPPER, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 7, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beverly B. Bates, Atlanta, Ga. (Court-appointed), for petitioner-appellant.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., B. Dean Grindle, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent-appellee.

Before AINSWORTH, MORGAN and GEE, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Petitioner, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, attacks his 1963 state conviction and sentence on the following grounds: (1) The juries which indicted and convicted him were unconstitutionally constituted because of the systematic exclusion of blacks; and (2) he was denied effective assistance of counsel in that his counsel failed to consider a challenge to the composition of the grand and petit juries.

The trial court, after an evidentiary hearing...

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