COOPER v. CAMPBELL

No. 78-1534.

597 F.2d 628 (1979)

James Dale COOPER, Appellant, v. Jerry CAMPBELL, Superintendent, Arkansas Department of Correction, Cummins Unit, and Attorney General, State of Arkansas, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Hornberger, of Shaw & Ledbetter, Fort Smith, Ark., on brief for appellant.

Joseph H. Purvis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellees; Bill Clinton, Atty. Gen., on brief.

Before HEANEY, ROSS and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges.


ROSS, Circuit Judge.

James Dale Cooper, petitioner in this habeas corpus proceeding, is serving a sentence of life imprisonment as the result of a jury verdict in the state Circuit Court of Sebastian County, Arkansas, finding him guilty of first degree murder. Cooper's judgment of conviction entered in November 1974 was affirmed on appeal by the Arkansas Supreme Court, as was the subsequent denial of his petition for state post-conviction relief.

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