Carr X. Johnson v. Joseph H. Havener

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant seeks reversal of the judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, which, without appointing counsel and without hearing, but after reviewing the state court record, denied his petition for writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant had previously been convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the robbery-murder of an insurance salesman in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1972. The undisputed facts in the state court trial record show that the insurance salesman had been assigned to call at appellant’s…