James Dean Walker v. O. E. Bishop, Superintendent of Arkansas State Penitentiary

MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment dismissing appellant Walker’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus following a plenary evidentiary hearing before The Honorable J. Smith Henley, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Walker has been twice found guilty of murder in the first degree for the killing of a North Little Rock police officer. In the first trial, Walker was sentenced to death, but the Supreme Court of Arkansas remanded the case for a new trial, Walker v. State, 239 Ark. 172, 388 S.W.2d 13 (1965). Upon retrial, Walker…