Cox v. Wyrick

MEMORANDUM OPINION

REGAN, District Judge.

Donald Garfield Cox, a prisoner of the state of Missouri, is presently serving a sentence of life imprisonment imposed on him by the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, following his December 6, 1974 conviction of the crime of murder first degree. His appeal proved unsuccessful State v. *364Cox, 542 S.W.2d 40 (Mo.App.1976), as did his Rule 27.26 motion (Cox v. State, 578 S.W.2d 54 (Mo.App.1978)).

Following his exhaustion of state remedies, Cox filed a pro se application in this Court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. An evidentiary…