Walter Lee Holloway, Jr. v. James D. Cox, Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary

BOREMAN, Circuit Judge:

Walter Lee Holloway, Jr., appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Holloway urges that In re Winship, 397 U.S. 358, 90 S.Ct. 1068, 25 L.Ed.2d 368 (1970), dictates a revolutionary change in the duties and obligations of the federal courts in habeas corpus proceedings by requiring application of an entirely new standard in considering petitioner’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence before the trier of fact. In that case a twelve-year-old boy was found guilty in a juvenile proceeding under a New York statute which…