United States ex rel. Nelson v. Wyrick

MEMORANDUM

REGAN, District Judge.

Petitioner, convicted of murder in the first degree upon trial to a jury in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri, *140was sentenced on January 5, 1973, to life imprisonment. The conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Missouri in State v. Nelson, 514 S.W.2d 581 (1974). A motion for post-conviction relief under Missouri Supreme Court Rule 27.26 was denied, and that order was affirmed by the Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, on May 25, 1976. (Nelson v. State, 537 S.W.2d 689), and transfer was denied by the Supreme Court of Missouri on…