Legal Opinion
Michael A. Mayola v. State of Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 1, 1980No. 79-2020PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:
Michael Anthony Mayóla was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on November 15,1962 for the first degree murder of an 11 year old Alabama boy. Though he took no direct appeal from that conviction, Mayóla has subsequently attempted several collateral attacks in both state and federal courts. This appeal arises from the district court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, filed May 3, 1978, which followed an unsuccessful bid for writ of error coram nobis in the Alabama state courts based on essentially the same grounds, Mayola v. State, 344…
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