James W. Armstrong v. Charles E. Egeler, Warden

ENGEL, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal we are called upon to decide whether a plea of guilty to murder, otherwise voluntarily . and intelligently made, must nonetheless be set aside as vio-lative of the petitioner’s rights to due proc*797ess because the record of the plea is silent on whether the petitioner knew that the mandatory penalty of life imprisonment was not subject to parole. Upon the facts of this case, we hold that due process was not offended by the state trial judge’s failure specifically to inform petitioner of this fact and affirm the judgment of the district court.

Petitioner James…