Edward J. Gobie v. L. L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida

The appellant is serving two concurrent fifteen-year sentences for robbery which were imposed in 1959 by a Florida state court. The district court denied habeas corpus relief without an eviden-tiary hearing; and we granted a certificate of probable cause to appeal.

The appellant’s contentions that he was unlawfully arrested, denied a preliminary hearing, arraigned without benefit of counsel, and tried by a six-man jury upon an information rather than an indictment are clearly without merit. The appellant pleaded guilty on one of the robbery charges after he had been convicted and sentenced to…