Legal Opinion
Virgil D. Riley v. Maurice H. Sigler, Warden, Nebraska Penal Complex
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 1, 1971No. 20483_1PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Per curiam
The petitioner Virgil D. Riley, a state inmate of the Nebraska Penal Complex, appeals from a denial of his federal ha-beas corpus application in the District Court of the District of Nebraska, the Honorable Warren K. Urbom presiding. The petitioner was tried and convicted in the Nebraska state court in a jury trial of breaking and entering and as an habitual criminal. This judgment was affirmed by the Nebraska Supreme Court, State v. Riley, 182 Neb. 300, 154 N.W.2d 741 (1967). He complains basically of two alleged errors in the state trial court. A police officer in testifying about the…
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