SNEED v. SMITH

No. 81-6181.

670 F.2d 1348 (1982)

Robert M. SNEED, a/k/a Larry K. Sneed, Appellant, v. J. Richard SMITH, Superintendent, McDowell County Prison Unit 4650; Rufus L. Edmisten, Attorney General of the State of North Carolina; Amos Reed, Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of North Carolina, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 11, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Nakell, Chapel Hill, N.C. (Karen Davidson, Elizabeth Lackey, School of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., on brief), for appellant.

Richard N. League, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C. (Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, MURNAGHAN and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Robert M. Sneed appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in which he challenged his North Carolina conviction of and consecutive sentencing to a total term of twenty years for one count of forgery and one count of uttering a single check in the amount of $188.90. Finding the evidence constitutionally insufficient to convict Sneed of forgery, we reverse the district court's denial of...

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