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BARFIELD v. STATE OF ALA.

No. 75-4187.

552 F.2d 1114 (1977)

Bertha Mae BARFIELD, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE of ALABAMA, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 26, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Bryan, Birmingham, Ala., for petitioner-appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., Quentin Q. Brown, Jr., Barry V. Hutner, Asst. Attys. Gen., Birmingham, Ala., for respondent-appellee.

Before RIVES, GEWIN and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

Bertha Mae Barfield appeals from an order denying her petition for habeas corpus. In 1972 she was convicted of the first degree murder of Prince Albert McKinney and sentenced to life imprisonment. Her conviction was affirmed by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, Barfield v. State, 54 Ala.App. 15, 304 So.2d 257 (1974), after which she sought relief in the district court. The primary question to be...

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