MAXWELL, Chief Judge.
In 1959 Petitioner William Taylor was sentenced by the Circuit Court of Taylor County, West Virginia, to fifteen years in the West Virginia Penitentiary, his present abode, following acceptance of a guilty plea to statutory rape and the granting of a request for mercy by the trial court.
This petition for federal habeas corpus attacks the validity of his conviction in two respects. A third claim concerns the resentence of Petitioner herein...
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