HYMAN v. AIKEN

No. 85-4002.

777 F.2d 938 (1985)

William Gibbs HYMAN, Appellant, v. James AIKEN, Warden, CCI, and Travis Medlock, Attorney General, State of South Carolina, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 25, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coming B. Gibbs, Jr. (Gibbs & Holmes, Ann M. Stirling, Charleston, S.C., on brief), for appellant.

Donald J. Zelenka, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. (T. Travis Medlock, Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before RUSSELL and SNEEDEN, Circuit Judges and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge:

William Gibbs Hyman appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Hyman was convicted by a South Carolina jury of armed robbery and murder. In the second phase of the proceedings, the jury recommended that he be sentenced to death, and the trial judge accepted this recommendation. The judgment was affirmed in State v. Hyman, 276 S.C. 559, 281 S...

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