William Nay Wood v. Sherman H. Crouse, Warden

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

The district court, without an eviden-tiary hearing, denied appellant Wood habeas corpus relief on the ground that he had failed to exhaust his state remedies. Wood is a prisoner in the Kansas penitentiary serving a 30-year sentence as a habitual criminal. He was convicted of seven counts covering burglary, larceny, forgery, and attempts to pass forged instruments. The state charges that he burglarized a store, stole various items including a number of company checks, forged some of those checks, and attempted to pass such forged checks. The prisoner claimed he was…