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SMITH v. HOUSEWRIGHT

No. 81-1059.

667 F.2d 689 (1981)

Robert Wayne SMITH, Appellant, v. Vernon HOUSEWRIGHT, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Turner, Jr., West Memphis, Ark., argued, for appellant Robert Wayne Smith.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by Dennis R. Molock, Deputy Atty. Gen., argued, Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge, GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

In September 1976, Robert Wayne Smith was convicted of aggravated robbery and kidnapping. Smith here appeals the denial of his petition, attacking the state court conviction, for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm the district court's1 denial of relief.

The facts, as briefly stated by the Arkansas Supreme Court and reiterated by the court below, are as follows:

Here the victim was...

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