Billy Don Franklin Boulden v. William C. Holman, Warden, Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama

CARSWELL, District Judge.

Appellant, under sentence of death following conviction for murder and after affirmance on appeal by the Supreme Court of Alabama, 1 sought relief by petition for writ of habeas corpus with the district court.

It was there stipulated and agreed that the issue to be determined was whether the reception into evidence of admissions against interest and purported confessions obtained after appellant’s arrest at a time he was not represented by counsel constituted a denial of his constitutional rights as guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.

After plenary…