United States of America Ex Rel. Walter Bibbs v. John J. Twomey, Warden, Etc.

This matter comes before the court on the filing of a brief by appointed counsel pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), an appellee’s brief, and simultaneous memorandums of law in response to this court’s order of March 4, 1974. The court has considered this appeal on the record and said briefs, and memorandums alone, without oral argument, under the provisions of Rule 2, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Petitioner, Walter Bibbs, is a prisoner in the Illinois State Penitentiary— Stateville. In 1967 he was convicted of robbei'y by a jury in an…