Favre v. Henderson

RUBIN, District Judge:

In 1967 Robert Favre was convicted of armed robbery of a bar by a Louisiana state court jury and sentenced to serve forty years at hard labor. The Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed the conviction. State v. Favre, 255 La. 690, 232 So.2d 479. Favre now seeks a writ of habeas corpus on the ground, inter alia, that he was denied the right to confront the witnesses against him, in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.1

*1385The evidence against the defendant consisted largely of identification of him by the owner of the bar, his nephew,…