Legal Opinion
William M. Wilson v. K. B. Bailey, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, N. C.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 22, 1967No. 10733PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:
This is a state prisoner’s appeal from the dismissal without a hearing of his application for writ of habeas corpus in the district court. The petitioner, Wilson, was accorded a post-conviction hearing in state court to review the constitutionality of his conviction and life sentence for murder in the first degree. Neither the state court nor the district court consulted the transcript of the orginal trial. It has since been made available. Perusal of it is essential to determine the validity or invalidity of the assigned constitutional defects in the trial. Ordinarily,…
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3Cited by23 opinions
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