John David Pruitt v. Vernon Housewright, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

624 F.2d 851

John David PRUITT, Appellant,

v.

Vernon HOUSEWRIGHT, Director, Arkansas Department of

Correction, Appellee.

No. 80-1060.

United States Court of Appeals,

Eighth Circuit.

Submitted June 30, 1980.

Decided July 9, 1980.

Merl O. Barns, Howell & Price, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. and Mary Davies Scott, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before BRIGHT, HENLEY and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges.

HENLEY, Circuit Judge.

1

The district court1 denied John D. Pruitt's petition for writ of habeas corpus, and he appeals claiming the district court erred (1) in denying…