George L. Morris v. John W. Wingo, Warden Kentucky State Penitentiary

CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by George L. Morris, petitioner-appellant, from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Padu-cah Division, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Actually the petitioner had filed two petitions in the District Court and the district judge considered them together and deniecj them by order under date of December 2, 1968.

Morris is confined in the Kentucky State Penitentiary at Eddyville on conviction by a plea of guilty of murder in 1953, and upon conviction of two counts of armed robbery in…