Robert Lee Ferguson v. J. D. Cox, Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary

SOBELOFF, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellant Robert Lee Ferguson seeks a certificate of probable cause to appeal from the decision of the District Court refusing him habeas corpus relief.

On July 18, 1966, Ferguson, upon his plea of guilty in the City of Danville Corporation Court, Danville, Virginia, was convicted on four counts of statutory burglary and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

Ferguson’s present petition for federal habeas corpus, filed August 14, 1969, alleges that his 1966 conviction was void because:(1) he was denied effective assistance of counsel;(2) his guilty plea was…