Billy R. Haacks v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from a denial of habeas corpus relief without a hearing presents a confrontation between judgmental finality and the eternals of constitutional protection.

Billy R. Haacks, represented by privately retained counsel, was convicted in a Florida court upon his plea of guilty of breaking and entering with intent to commit petit larceny on July 21, 1964. He was sentenced on July 28, 1964, to serve five years on the breaking and entering conviction; sentence on the petit larceny conviction was deferred. It appears that appellant has exhausted his state court…