WOODARD v. SARGENT

No. 83-2168.

806 F.2d 153 (1986)

Billy WOODARD, Appellant, v. Willis SARGENT, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 20, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 28, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reed E. Hundt, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Clint Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before McMILLIAN, ARNOLD, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 28, 1987.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

This death-penalty case is once again before us, on remand from the Supreme Court of the United States.

The appellant, Billy Woodard, has been tried by jury, found guilty of capital felony murder, and sentenced to death. See Woodard v. State, 261 Ark. 895, 553 S.W.2d 259 (1977), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 1122, 99 S.Ct. 1034...

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