Frederick Pennington, Jr. v. Vernon Housewright, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

I

This is an appeal from the dismissal by the district court,1 without an evidentiary hearing, of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1976). Appellant Frederick Pennington argues that he was entitled to an evidentiary hearing on the *330question of whether the guilty plea he entered in state court was involuntary.

Pennington initially was charged with four counts of aggravated robbery, one count of first degree battery, and one count of capital felony murder. With the prosecutor’s consent, Pennington pleaded guilty to first degree murder rather…