Petition of Gillham

OPINION AND ORDER FOR RESPONSE TO ATTORNEY

Henry J. Gillham filed his petition for post-conviction relief in this Court on April 1, 1985. Gillham had been convicted in the District Court of the 19th Judicial District of Attempted Deliberate Homicide, with Use of a Weapon, and sentenced to 60 years and 10 years respectively. His judgment of conviction was affirmed on appeal. State v. Gillham (1983), [206 Mont. 169,] 670 P.2d 544.

Gillham sought habeas corpus writ in the United States District Court for the District of Montana. His petition was there denied.

Gillham’s present petition for…