Clark v. Hopper

This appeal is by a Georgia state prisoner from the denial of federal habeas relief directed against his 1968 pleas of guilty to three counts of armed robbery on which he received concurrent sentences. State habeas relief had theretofore been denied. Clark v. Caldwell, 229 Ga. 612, 193 S.E.2d 816 (1972).

There was a full evidentiary hearing in the state habeas court and the district court concluded that the state records were such as not to require a further hearing. Although not expressed in specifics in its order, we perceive that the district court made its own conclusions of law, based on…