Carl Everett Arnold v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

This case is before us on appeal for the second time. The district court initially denied the petitioners’ requests for habeas corpus relief without conducting an evidentiary hearing, from which rulings the petitioners took separate appeals. We consolidated the appeals and remanded for a hearing to determine the answers to specific questions. Wells v. Wainwright, 5 Cir. 1973, 488 F.2d 522. Before us now are the answers found by the district court at the required hearing, upon which we may decide whether the prior denial of habeas corpus relief was correct. 1 We conclude…