Richard Sims v. Joe S. Hopper, Warden, Georgia State Prison

For the reasons, one excepted, given in the magistrate’s report to the district court, we affirm that court’s judgment. That report was made and adopted before we found ourselves in the business of reviewing the sufficiency, as opposed to the absence, of evidence in state court convictions. Our former rule was to the contrary. See, e. g., Young v. Alabama, 443 F.2d 854 (5th Cir. 1971). The report, therefore, properly declined to consider that question. Being now required to entertain such claims (perhaps retroactively, to one degree or another) and one having arguably been made here, we have…