YANCEY v. HOUSEWRIGHT

No. 81-1253.

664 F.2d 187 (1981)

John Bentley YANCEY, Appellant, v. Vernon HOUSEWRIGHT, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 19, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darrell F. Brown, Mays, Crutcher & Brown, P.A., Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by Arnold M. Jochums, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

John Bentley Yancey, pro se.

Before HEANEY and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges, and REGAN, Senior District Judge.


REGAN, Senior District Judge.

This appeal by John Bentley Yancey is from the order of the district court1 denying his application for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. Section 2254. We affirm.

Petitioner was convicted upon trial to a jury of murder in the second degree and sentenced to a term of twenty years imprisonment. His conviction was affirmed by the Arkansas Supreme Court in an unpublished opinion, and thereafter petitioner...

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