Edward Heilman v. United States

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus without an evidentiary hearing. In 1959 in Goeppinger, Germany, petitioner was convicted by a general court-martial of the larceny of a pistol, the premeditated murder of Charles R. Ehrstein, and attempted premeditated murder of James L. Hahn, both Army privates. In November 1960, the Board of Review in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Army reduced the last two convictions to unpremeditated murder and attempted unpremeditated murder, affirmed petitioner’s conviction for larceny and…