SMITH v. STATE OF S.C.

No. 89-6519.

882 F.2d 895 (1989)

Alton B. SMITH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Gaston Fairey (J. Christopher Mills, Fairey and Parise, P.A., on brief), Columbia, S.C., for petitioner-appellant.

Donald J. Zelenka, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. (T. Travis Medlock, Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., on brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before CHAPMAN and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, and SPENCER, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


SPENCER, District Judge:

Alton B. Smith appeals the the district court's denial of his petition for habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1986). We affirm the decision of the district court.

I.

An indictment brought at the February, 1983 term of the Court of General Sessions for Lexington County, South Carolina charged Smith with one count of criminal conspiracy and five counts of violating South Carolina's criminal sexual conduct statute...

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