George Albert Curry v. Lawrence E. Wilson, Warden

DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:

Appeal from denial of a writ of habeas corpus. The opinion of the district court is reported at 269 F.Supp. 9. We affirm.

Curry was charged in the Superior Court of Orange County, California, with murder in the first degree. At his trial in 1960, which lasted 14 days, he was represented by retained counsel. The result was a conviction of murder in the second degree. He appealed to the California District Court of Appeal, which affirmed. People v. Curry, 1961, 192 Cal.App.2d 664, 13 Cal.Rptr. 596. That court’s opinion sets out the basic facts at length, and this opinion…