Legal Opinion

Luther Wesley Wilson v. Maurice Sigler, Warden

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided October 26, 1971No. 71-1079PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Per curiam

The District Court’s denial of appellant’s habeas corpus petition is affirmed.

Appellant is a Nebraska state prisoner, under a life sentence for a murder committed by him in an attempted robbery of an Omaha liquor store in 1958. He has engaged in a number of previous attacks upon his conviction both in state and federal court, among which there are reported opinions in Wilson v. State, 170 Neb. 494, 103 N.W.2d 258, cert. den. 364 U.S. 887, 81 S.Ct. 178, 5 L.Ed.2d 108, and Wilson v. Sigler, 8 Cir., 285 F. 2d 372. This is his third federal court petition.

The only substantial question that has…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  2. Wilson v. NebraskaNebraska Supreme Court · 1960
  3. Luther Wesley Wilson v. Maurice H. Sigler, Warden, Nebraska State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1961

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. State v. ErksNebraska Supreme Court · 1983
  2. State v. BoyerNebraska Supreme Court · 1982

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