BLACKMON v. WHITE

No. 87-1133.

825 F.2d 1263 (1987)

O'Dell BLACKMON, Appellant, v. Carl WHITE, Superintendent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 7, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert O. Appelton, Jr., Clayton, Mo., for appellant.

Stephen D. Hawke, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for appellee.

Before ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.


ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

O'Dell Blackmon, a Missouri inmate, is serving sentences of life and 35 years for the crimes of first-degree felony murder and assault with intent to kill, respectively. His case comes to us on appeal of the District Court's1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.

Blackmon was convicted in 1977 of causing the death of an accomplice during the armed robbery of an office of the Beneficial...

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