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WALKER v. BISHOP

No. 19049.

408 F.2d 1378 (1969)

James Dean WALKER, Appellant, v. O. E. BISHOP, Superintendent of Arkansas State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

March 25, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gene Worsham, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant; Fletcher Jackson, Little Rock, Ark., with him on the briefs.

Don Langston, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark., for appellee; Joe Purcell, Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., with him on the brief.

Before MEHAFFY, GIBSON and HEANEY, Circuit Judges.

MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment dismissing appellant Walker's petition for a writ of habeas corpus following a plenary evidentiary hearing before The Honorable J. Smith Henley, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Walker has been twice found guilty of murder in the first degree for the killing of a North Little Rock police officer. In the first trial, Walker was sentenced to death, but the Supreme...

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