Marvin Roberts v. A. L. Dutton, Warden, Georgia State Prison

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from the district court’s denial of a writ of habeas corpus to a prisoner of the State of Georgia. The application alleged and the answer denied exhaustion of available State remedies. 1 The ground assigned in the application is that Roberts was denied effective representation of counsel for his defense. The same ground had been assigned in a petition for habeas corpus presented to the City Court of Reidsville, Georgia. The Judge of that Court granted the petition upon a finding that Roberts’ counsel declined to appeal from the judgment of conviction,…