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RICHARDSON v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 27463 Summary Calendar.

416 F.2d 1246 (1969)

Elijah RICHARDSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 28, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elijah Richardson pro se.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen. of Florida, Tallahassee, Fla., Harold Mendelow, Asst. Atty. Gen., Miami, Fla., for respondent-appellee.

Before THORNBERRY, MORGAN and CARSWELL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

The district court denied the petition of Elijah Richardson for habeas corpus and he has appealed to this Court.1 We affirm.

The appellant, represented by appointed counsel, was convicted upon his plea of guilty of rape of a three-year-old girl, a capital offense. He was sentenced on April 13, 1964, by the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida, to life imprisonment.

The appellant contends that his plea was coerced...

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