Harold Jimmy Wade v. Ira M. Coiner, Warden of the West Virginia State Penitentiary

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from denial of habeas relief, capable court-appointed counsel for Prisoner Wade frames the question to be whether Wade was denied due process by the acceptance of. his guilty plea without specifically determining “whether Wade understood the nature of the charge and the relation of the law to the acts he committed and the consequences of his plea, i. e., the waiver of several constitutional rights ? " We agree that for the plea to stand Wade must have been “fully aware of the direct consequences” 1 of his plea, but we reject the contention that under…