JOHNSON v. LEEKE

Civ. A. No. 76-896.

484 F.Supp. 1345 (1978)

Luther D. JOHNSON, Petitioner, v. William D. LEEKE, and the Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, Respondents.

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

September 29, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy T. Stuckey, Vance L. Cowden and W. Lewis Burke, Columbia, S. C., for petitioner.

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


ORDER

HEMPHILL, Chief Judge.

The petitioner was convicted of manslaughter in Florence County in December of 1973. A belated direct appeal of the conviction was perfected, and the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed the conviction.1 An application for post-conviction relief was also made by the petitioner in Florence County. The application was denied by Judge David W. Harwell, and the Supreme Court affirmed the denial of post...

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