Russell Mosley v. A. L. Dutton, Warden, Georgia State Prison

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from the district court’s denial of a writ of habeas corpus to a prisoner of the State of Georgia. The application alleged and the answer admitted exhaustion of available State remedies. 1 The applicant is serving a term of life imprisonment imposed upon his conviction of murder by castration. The district court denied the writ after a hearing in which the applicant was represented by appointed counsel. The applicant and the respondent testified orally, and the other evidence was taken by deposition and by affidavit. 2 The district court found the facts…