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CRONNON v. STATE OF ALA.

No. 77-3393.

587 F.2d 246 (1979)

Johnny Lee CRONNON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF ALABAMA, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 8, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myron K. Allenstein, Gadsden, Ala. (Court-appointed), for petitioner-appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., David W. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for respondent-appellee.

Before COLEMAN, CLARK and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a case in which a man convicted of the particularly revolting murder of a fifteen year old female was nailed by the tattoo of a nude woman on his left forearm.

Relying on the contents of the state court records, the District Court denied Johnny Lee Cronnon's petition for habeas corpus.

Cronnon was convicted of first degree murder in the Circuit Court of Etowah County, Alabama.1 We have already...

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