COWENS v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 24025.

373 F.2d 34 (1967)

Leavy COWENS, Appellant, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Certiorari Denied May 15, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leavy Cowens, pro se.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., of Florida, Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Fla., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, BELL and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied May 15, 1967. See 87 S.Ct. 1705.

PER CURIAM:

Appellant, represented by counsel of his own selection, was convicted of robbery by a jury in the Florida State courts. His claim by way of a petition for habeas corpus is that his lawyer failed to call six witnesses who would have testified to his innocence. He contends that counsel was thus ineffective to the extent of amounting to denial of counsel within the meaning of the Sixth Amendment....

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