COOPER v. STATE OF N.C.

No. 82-6293.

702 F.2d 481 (1983)

Albert COOPER, Appellant, v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Samuel P. Garrison, Warden, Central Prison, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 10, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman B. Smith, Greensboro, N.C. (Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis, James & Harkavy, Greensboro, 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 WINTER, Chief Judge, ERVIN, Circuit Judge, and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.


ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

Albert Cooper challenges the constitutionality of his incarceration by the state of North Carolina after his felony conviction in state court. The district court denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus and this court granted a certificate of probable cause. We now affirm.

I.

On December 2, 1971, Cooper was discovered by a policeman in a bowling alley in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He was behaving in a peculiar manner...

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