CARTWRIGHT v. MAYNARD

No. 86-1231.

802 F.2d 1203 (1986)

William Thomas CARTWRIGHT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gary D. MAYNARD, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester, Oklahoma, and Michael C. Turpen, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

September 29, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mandy Welch, of Payne and Welch, Hugo, Okl., for petitioner-appellant.

David W. Lee (Michael C. Turpen, Atty. Gen., with him on briefs), Asst. Atty. Gen., Oklahoma City, Okl., for respondents-appellees.

Before BARRETT, McWILLIAMS and TACHA, Circuit Judges.


BARRETT, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner William Thomas Cartwright, presently incarcerated in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary under sentence of death following his conviction for the offense of Murder in the First Degree, appeals from the federal district court's denial of his petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. Appellant-petitioner Cartwright was sentenced to death by lethal drug injection on October 25, 1982, for the offense of Murder in the First Degree of the person...

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