Legal Opinion
Gordon Lee Wilkins v. Don R. Erickson, Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 26, 1973No. 73-1260PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATTHES, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal, pursuant to a certificate of probable cause, is from an order of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota transferring a petition for writ of habeas corpus to the District Court of Montana in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). 1
In September of 1969, appellant, Gordon Lee Wilkins, stood trial for first degree murder in a state court in Cascade County, Montana. The trial terminated when Wilkins entered a plea of guilty to murder in the second degree. He was sentenced to a term of fifty years in the Montana State Prison.
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