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BALL v. WYRICK

No. 76-1521.

547 F.2d 78 (1977)

Thomas BALL, Appellant, v. Donald WYRICK, Warden Missouri State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Clark, Chesterfield, Mo., for appellant.

W. Mitchell Elliott, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for appellee; John C. Danforth (former Atty. Gen.) Jefferson City, Mo., on brief.

Before HEANEY and ROSS, Circuit Judges, and VAN PELT, Senior District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Thomas Ball, a prisoner of the State of Missouri, appeals from the dismissal by the District Court of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Ball was convicted of murder in the first degree in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal to the Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District. State v. Ball, 529 S.W...

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