BOOKER v. STATE OF ARKANSAS

No. 18538.

380 F.2d 240 (1967)

James D. BOOKER, Appellant, v. STATE OF ARKANSAS, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

July 10, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Booker, pro se.

Joe Purcell, Atty. Gen., and R. D. Smith, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., filed brief for appellee.

Before BLACKMUN, MEHAFFY and GIBSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

We are concerned here with the efforts of a federal prisoner to free himself from a state conviction and an unsatisfied state sentence.

In August 1961 James D. Booker, by his plea of guilty, convicted himself in the Circuit Court of Faulkner County, Arkansas, of a state charge of larceny. Ark.Stat.Ann. §§ 41-3901 and 41-3902 (Repl.1964). He received a sentence of seven years in the Arkansas penitentiary. § 41-3907. On March 10, 1964...

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