William Boyd Tucker v. Walter D. Zant

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

On March 9,1978, the petitioner, William Boyd Tucker, was convicted in Muscogee County, Georgia, of murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, and robbery by intimidation. His convictions grew out of the August 21, 1977, robbery of a Majik Market convenience store and the abduction and stabbing death of a clerk, Kathleen Perry.1 Tucker’s jury sentenced him to death for the murder. On automatic appeal, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld both the convictions and the death sentence. Tucker v. State, 244 Ga. 721, 261 S.E.2d 635 (1979), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 972, 100 S.Ct. 1666,…