Legal Opinion
Smith v. White
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 1, 1987No. 86-7468PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:
Willie Morris Smith, an Alabama prisoner serving a life sentence on a robbery conviction and a concurrent twenty year sentence on a conviction for assault with intent to murder, petitioned for a federal writ of habeas corpus. The district court denied the petition, and Smith appealed. We affirm.
I. .Sufficiency of Evidence
The first argument Smith raises on appeal is that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions. The relevant question with respect to such a habeas challenge is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the…
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