Legal Opinion
Merle Ray Winford v. Harold R. Swenson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 10, 1975No. 74-1165PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEBSTER, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal from the denial of habeas corpus relief below, Merle Ray Win-ford asserts that his 1964 guilty plea to a charge of second degree murder was neither voluntarily nor understandingly made and that in dismissing his habeas petition the District Court erred in not affording him a de novo evidentiary hearing. We reject both contentions and affirm the result below.
The record discloses the following facts and procedural history:
On September 20, 1964, Winford, who had been arrested on a check charge, signed a paper styled a confession wherein he admitted shooting…
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