Jack Roland Murphy v. State of Florida

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

The lower court, by a reported opinion, Murphy v. State of Florida, S.D. Fla.1973, 363 F.Supp. 1224, denied appellant’s petition for habeas corpus relief from two state sentences received in a single trial, to life imprisonment for armed robbery and consecutively to twenty years imprisonment for assault with intent to commit robbery. We affirm.

The attack upon the state convictions both in the trial court and here is based primarily ¿upon a claim of denial of Fourteenth Amendment due process because of extensive pre-trial newspaper publicity regarding Murphy, known as…