BUSBY v. HOLT

No. 84-7110.

771 F.2d 1461 (1985)

Marie Lancaster BUSBY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Kathleen B. HOLT, Warden; Charles A. Graddick, Attorney General of the State of Alabama, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 24, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Gregory Hughes, J. Jerry Pilgrim, Mobile, Ala., for petitioner-appellant.

James F. Hampton, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for respondents-appellees.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, CLARK, Circuit Judge, and THOMAS, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

The petitioner, Marie Lancaster Busby, was convicted and sentenced in an Alabama state court to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband. Her conviction was affirmed on appeal by the Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals, 412 So.2d 837 (1982). She filed in federal court a petition for the writ of habeas corpus, claiming that the questioning of a co-indictee Dennis Cross by the prosecutor constituted prosecutorial...

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