Matthew Winters v. Thomas D. Cook, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge:
The factual circumstances of Winters’ crime and the procedural context in which his subsequent guilty plea was entered are set out in detail in the district court’s opinion, published at 333 F.Supp. 1033, and need not be reiterated at length here. Winters was indicted by the Grand Jury of Holmes County, Mississippi, on a charge of murder arising out of the shooting death of one E. T. Branch. On the advice of retained counsel Winters pled guilty to that charge and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Winters now seeks federal habeas relief alleging that Negroes were…
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