WOOMER v. AIKEN

No. 88-4001.

856 F.2d 677 (1988)

Ronald Raymond WOOMER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James AIKEN, Warden; T. Travis Medlock, Attorney General of South Carolina, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 14, 1988.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 21, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Gaston Fairey (Fairey & Parise, P.A., Columbia, S.C., on brief), for petitioner-appellant.

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

Before CHAPMAN, WILKINSON, and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied October 21, 1988.

WILKINS, Circuit Judge:

Ronald Raymond Woomer, a South Carolina inmate, appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 (West 1977), challenging his death sentence under the fifth and sixth amendments. We affirm.

I.

Woomer was sentenced to death for one of several murders he committed in February 1979. Woomer and Gene Skaar traveled from...

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