DOBBS v. ZANT

No. 90-8352.

963 F.2d 1403 (1991)

Wilburn DOBBS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Walter D. ZANT, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 25, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Altman, Michael Kennedy McIntyre, Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner-appellant.

Mary Beth Westmoreland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent-appellee.

Before FAY and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and CLARK, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM:

In this capital case, we affirm the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On December 14, 1973, Wilburn Dobbs, the appellant, and two other men robbed Roy Sizemore's grocery store. During the armed robbery, Dobbs shot and killed Sizemore.1 On May 22, 1974, a jury in the Superior Court of Walker County, Georgia, convicted Dobbs on two counts of aggravated assault, two...

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