Legal Opinion
Elbert Whaley Jones v. Gary Jerrison, Parole Officer Cranston Mitchell, Board of Probation and Parole and the Attorney General of Missouri
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 13, 1994No. 93-1399PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
Elbert Whaley Jones filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus attacking his Missouri state-court conviction for stealing by means of deceit. He alleged that he did not have proper notice of the charges against him, that the evidence was insufficient to support a conviction, and that his trial counsel was ineffective. The district court 1 denied relief. We affirm.
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In 1971, Theola Griffis bought a two-level duplex at 459 Laurel, St. Louis, Missouri. In August 1985, she was living on the second floor, while the first floor was vacant. Then she met Jones, the petitioner…
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