Legal Opinion
Billy Honeycutt v. Mr. William B. Mahoney, Superintendent Attorney General of the State of North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 10, 1983No. 82-6427PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge:
North Carolina prisoner, Billy Honeycutt, appeals from an order of the district court dismissing his petition for writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Finding this appeal to be without merit, we affirm.
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Billy Honeycutt was charged with the first degree murder of his wife, Brenda Honeycutt, on June 6, 1973. He pleaded not guilty and was tried in the Superior Court for Duplin County, North Carolina, in October of that year. According to the narrative summary of the trial proceedings, the state presented evidence that Honeycutt and his wife were…
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