SIMS v. HOPPER

No. 79-1599 Summary Calendar.

603 F.2d 581 (1979)

Richard SIMS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Joe S. HOPPER, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 1, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Sims, pro se.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., G. Stephen Parker, John C. Walden, Asst. Attys. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent-appellee.

Before CLARK, GEE and HILL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

For the reasons, one excepted, given in the magistrate's report to the district court, we affirm that court's judgment. That report was made and adopted before we found ourselves in the business of reviewing the sufficiency, as opposed to the absence, of evidence in state court convictions. Our former rule was to the contrary. See, e. g., Young v. Alabama, 443 F.2d 854 (5th Cir. 1971). The report, therefore, properly...

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